[3.5.y.z extended stable] Patch "Input: allocate absinfo data when setting ABS capability" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    Input: allocate absinfo data when setting ABS capability

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 32a4002064d930eb0e21523a6de5bbce9e4c510b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 17:44:29 -0800
Subject: Input: allocate absinfo data when setting ABS capability

commit 28a2a2e1aedbe2d8b2301e6e0e4e63f6e4177aca upstream.

We need to make sure we allocate absinfo data when we are setting one of
EV_ABS/ABS_XXX capabilities, otherwise we may bomb when we try to emit this
event.

Rested-by: Paul Cercueil <pcercuei at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/input/input.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/input/input.c b/drivers/input/input.c
index 8921c61..d56c407 100644
--- a/drivers/input/input.c
+++ b/drivers/input/input.c
@@ -1707,6 +1707,10 @@ void input_set_capability(struct input_dev *dev, unsigned int type, unsigned int
 		break;

 	case EV_ABS:
+		input_alloc_absinfo(dev);
+		if (!dev->absinfo)
+			return;
+
 		__set_bit(code, dev->absbit);
 		break;

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1.8.3.2