A big security advantage of Wayland is not allowing applications to read
input devices all the time. Having /dev/input/* accessible to the user
account subverts this advantage.
libudev-devd was opening the evdev devices to detect their types (mouse,
keyboard, touchpad, etc). This don't work if /dev/input/* is inaccessible.
With the kernel exposing this information as sysctls (kern.evdev.input.*),
we can work w/o /dev/input/* access, preserving the Wayland security model.
Submitted by: Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology>
Reviewed by: wulf, imp
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18694
This allow to prevent deadlock on entering KDB if one of evdev locks is
already taken by userspace process.
Also this change discards all but LED console events produced by KDB as
unrelated to userspace.
Tested by: dumbbell (as part of D15070)
Objected by: bde (as 'KDB lock an already locked mutex' problem solution)
MFC after: 1 month
Now softc should be retrieved from struct edvev * pointer
with evdev_get_softc() helper.
wmt(4) is a sample of driver that support both KPI.
Reviewed by: hselasky, gonzo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16614
Some events can take sound pitch as a value so can not be represented
as binary on/off events. Tracking for on/off state is left in place
as it is a part of the evdev API.
Reviewed by: gonzo
Approved by: gonzo (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12676
w/o EVDEV_SUPPORT as it's value has no meaning in this case.
Now presence of this sysctl can be used for discovery if evdev support
for hybrid devices is compiled into kernel or not.
Hide "kern.evdev.sysmouse_t_axis" sysctl for the same reason.
Reviewed by: gonzo
Approved by: gonzo (mentor)
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12676
For horizontal (T-axis) wheel reporting which is not supported by
sysmouse protocol kern.evdev.sysmouse_t_axis sysctl is introduced.
It can take following values:
0 - no T-axis events (default)
1 - T-axis events are originated in ums(4) driver.
2 - T-axis events are originated in psm(4) driver.
Submitted by: Vladimir Kondratiev <wulf@cicgroup.ru>
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8597
Add wrappers around generic evdev_push_event for specific event types:
EV_KEY/EV_REL/EV_ABS etc...
Submitted by: Vladimir Kondratiev <wulf@cicgroup.ru>
Automaticaly release (send ABS_MT_TRACKING_ID = -1) MT-slots
that has not been listed in current MT protocol type B report.
Slot is counted as listed if corresponding ABS_MT_SLOT event
has been sent regardless of other MT events.
Events are sent on SYN_REPORT event.
Submitted by: Vladimir Kondratiev <wulf@cicgroup.ru>
Add new API call: evdev_register_mtx which takes lock argument that
should be used instead of internal one for evdev locking. Useful for
cases if evdev_push_event() is always called with driver's lock taken
and reduces amount of lock aquisitions. This allows to avoid LOR
between ev_open/ev_close invocations and evdev_push_event() Such LOR
can happen when ev_open/ev_close methods acquire driver lock and
evdev_push_event() is called with this lock taken.
Submitted by: Vladimir Kondratiev <wulf@cicgroup.ru>
- Convert "options EVDEV" to "device evdev" and "device uinput", add
modules for both new devices. They are isolated subsystems and do not
require any compile-time changes to general kernel subsytems
- For hybrid drivers that have evdev as an optional way to deliver input
events add option EVDEV_SUPPORT. Update all existing hybrid drivers
to use it instead of EVDEV
- Remove no-op DECLARE_MODULE in evdev, it's not required, MODULE_VERSION
is enough
- Add evdev module dependency to uinput
Submitted by: Vladimir Kondratiev <wulf@cicgroup.ru>
Prepare for making evdev a module. "Pure" evdev device drivers (like
touchscreen) and evdev itself can be built as a modules regardless of
"options EVDEV" in kernel config. So if people does not require evdev
functionality in hybrid drivers like ums and ukbd they can, for instance,
kldload evdev and utouchscreen to run FreeBSD in kiosk mode.
Add check for evdev argument of evdev_free being NULL. This is valid
value and should not cause crash. In this case evdev_free does nothing
Submitted by: Vladimir Kondratiev <wulf@cicgroup.ru>
evdev is a generic input event interface compatible with Linux
evdev API at ioctl level. It allows using unmodified (apart from
header name) input evdev drivers in Xorg, Wayland, Qt.
This commit has only generic kernel API. evdev support for individual
hardware drivers like ukbd, ums, atkbd, etc. will be committed later.
Project was started by Jakub Klama as part of GSoC 2014. Jakub's
evdev implementation was later used as a base, updated and finished
by Vladimir Kondratiev.
Submitted by: Vladimir Kondratiev <wulf@cicgroup.ru>
Reviewed by: adrian, hans
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6998
