• Knut Petersen's avatar
    [PATCH] setkeycode ioctl fix · 99438d1e
    Knut Petersen authored
    This is a bugfix for setkeycode() in /drivers/char/keyboard.c.
    
    If we change a keycode the corresponding bit should be cleared if and
    only if this keycode is not defined any longer.  I believe that this
    also was intended with the original code, but the implementation is
    faulty.
    
    First off all the first three changed lines are obviously erroneus:
    oldkey == truekey is false or true, you do not need to inclose this in a
    for().  I believe the author intended INPUT_KEYCODE(dev,i) == oldkey.
    But fixing this alone is not enough.
    
    If somebody wants to interchange the definition of two keys A and B, the
    normal way is to use two setkeycode calls:
    
        setkeycode (scancode A, keycode B);
        setkeycode (scancode B, keycode A);
    
    The old code does a clearbit(oldkey ..) call even in situations where
    two keys have the same definition, and this situation arises commonly in
    the situation mentioned above.
    
    Both errors are fixed with this patch.
    99438d1e
keyboard.c 29.4 KB