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HID: introduce proper zeroing of unused bits in output reports
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Some HID devices are looking on the unused bits in the HID reports they
receive. This is violating the specification, but we want to make those
devices work. Well-behaving devices are unaffected, as they don't care
about the unused bits.

If bitsused % 8 is 0 all bits in data[] get used and we don't need to
clear anything. Otherwise (bitsused % 8) bits of the last byte get used.
By shifting 1 for (bitsused % 8) bits and subtracting 1 we create a mask
consisting of (bitsused % 8) ones and remaining zeroes. By ANDing we
clear the upper unused bits.

Signed-off-by: Simon Budig <simon@budig.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Simon Budig authored and Jiri Kosina committed Apr 11, 2007
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Expand Up @@ -872,8 +872,13 @@ static void hid_output_field(struct hid_field *field, __u8 *data)
unsigned count = field->report_count;
unsigned offset = field->report_offset;
unsigned size = field->report_size;
unsigned bitsused = offset + count * size;
unsigned n;

/* make sure the unused bits in the last byte are zeros */
if (count > 0 && size > 0 && (bitsused % 8) != 0)
data[(bitsused-1)/8] &= (1 << (bitsused % 8)) - 1;

for (n = 0; n < count; n++) {
if (field->logical_minimum < 0) /* signed values */
implement(data, offset + n * size, size, s32ton(field->value[n], size));
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