On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:27:20PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> We put this workaround in 2008 and the offending userspace has been fixed
> up long time ago; the link in the message is no longer valid either, so it
> is time to retire it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torok...@gmail.com>

works for me, Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutte...@who-t.net>

Cheers,
   Peter

> ---
>  drivers/input/evdev.c | 18 ------------------
>  1 file changed, 18 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/input/evdev.c b/drivers/input/evdev.c
> index ce953d8..fd325ec 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/evdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/evdev.c
> @@ -629,12 +629,10 @@ static int str_to_user(const char *str, unsigned int 
> maxlen, void __user *p)
>       return copy_to_user(p, str, len) ? -EFAULT : len;
>  }
>  
> -#define OLD_KEY_MAX  0x1ff
>  static int handle_eviocgbit(struct input_dev *dev,
>                           unsigned int type, unsigned int size,
>                           void __user *p, int compat_mode)
>  {
> -     static unsigned long keymax_warn_time;
>       unsigned long *bits;
>       int len;
>  
> @@ -652,24 +650,8 @@ static int handle_eviocgbit(struct input_dev *dev,
>       default: return -EINVAL;
>       }
>  
> -     /*
> -      * Work around bugs in userspace programs that like to do
> -      * EVIOCGBIT(EV_KEY, KEY_MAX) and not realize that 'len'
> -      * should be in bytes, not in bits.
> -      */
> -     if (type == EV_KEY && size == OLD_KEY_MAX) {
> -             len = OLD_KEY_MAX;
> -             if (printk_timed_ratelimit(&keymax_warn_time, 10 * 1000))
> -                     pr_warning("(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size %u, "
> -                                "limiting output to %zu bytes. See "
> -                                
> "http://userweb.kernel.org/~dtor/eviocgbit-bug.html\n";,
> -                                OLD_KEY_MAX,
> -                                BITS_TO_LONGS(OLD_KEY_MAX) * sizeof(long));
> -     }
> -
>       return bits_to_user(bits, len, size, p, compat_mode);
>  }
> -#undef OLD_KEY_MAX
>  
>  static int evdev_handle_get_keycode(struct input_dev *dev, void __user *p)
>  {
> -- 
> 1.9.0
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dmitry
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