Hi Sean,

On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 10:11:15AM +0100, Sean Young wrote:
> The repeat period is read from a static array. If a keydown event is
> reported from bpf with a high protocol number, we read out of bounds. This
> is unlikely to end up with a reasonable repeat period at the best of times,
> in which case no timely key up event is generated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Young <s...@mess.org>
> ---
>  drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c | 12 ++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c b/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c
> index 2e222d9ee01f..a24850be1f4f 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c
> @@ -679,6 +679,14 @@ static void ir_timer_repeat(struct timer_list *t)
>       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->keylock, flags);
>  }
>  
> +unsigned int repeat_period(int protocol)
> +{
> +     if (protocol >= ARRAY_SIZE(protocols))
> +             return 100;

100 seems a bit arbitrarily chosen to me. Wouldn't it be better to
(re-)use eg protocols[RC_PROTO_UNKNOWN].repeat_period here?

so long,

Hias

> +
> +     return protocols[protocol].repeat_period;
> +}
> +
>  /**
>   * rc_repeat() - signals that a key is still pressed
>   * @dev:     the struct rc_dev descriptor of the device
> @@ -691,7 +699,7 @@ void rc_repeat(struct rc_dev *dev)
>  {
>       unsigned long flags;
>       unsigned int timeout = nsecs_to_jiffies(dev->timeout) +
> -             msecs_to_jiffies(protocols[dev->last_protocol].repeat_period);
> +             msecs_to_jiffies(repeat_period(dev->last_protocol));
>       struct lirc_scancode sc = {
>               .scancode = dev->last_scancode, .rc_proto = dev->last_protocol,
>               .keycode = dev->keypressed ? dev->last_keycode : KEY_RESERVED,
> @@ -803,7 +811,7 @@ void rc_keydown(struct rc_dev *dev, enum rc_proto 
> protocol, u32 scancode,
>  
>       if (dev->keypressed) {
>               dev->keyup_jiffies = jiffies + nsecs_to_jiffies(dev->timeout) +
> -                     msecs_to_jiffies(protocols[protocol].repeat_period);
> +                     msecs_to_jiffies(repeat_period(protocol));
>               mod_timer(&dev->timer_keyup, dev->keyup_jiffies);
>       }
>       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->keylock, flags);
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 

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