Re: [PATCH] HID: steelseries: refactor probe() and remove()

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On Thu, 17 Jul 2025, Jeongjun Park wrote:

> steelseries_srws1_probe() still does not use devm_kzalloc() and
> devm_led_classdev_register(), so there is a lot of code to safely manage
> heap, which reduces readability and may cause memory leaks due to minor
> patch mistakes in the future.
> 
> Therefore, it should be changed to use devm_kzalloc() and
> devm_led_classdev_register() to easily and safely manage heap.
> 
> Also, the current steelseries driver mainly checks sd->quriks to determine
> which product a specific HID device is, which is not the correct way.
> 
> remove(), unlike probe(), does not receive struct hid_device_id as an
> argument, so it must check hdev unconditionally to know which product
> it is.
> 
> However, since struct steelseries_device and struct steelseries_srws1_data
> have different structures, if SRWS1 is removed in remove(), converts
> hdev->dev, which is initialized to struct steelseries_srws1_data,
> to struct steelseries_device and uses it. This causes various
> memory-related bugs as completely unexpected values exist in member
> variables of the structure.
> 
> Therefore, in order to modify probe() and remove() to work properly,
> Arctis 1, 9 should be added to HID_USB_DEVICE and some functions should be
> modified to check hdev->product when determining HID device product.
> 
> Fixes: a0c76896c3fb ("HID: steelseries: Add support for Arctis 1 XBox")
> Signed-off-by: Jeongjun Park <aha310510@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied to hid.git#for-6.18/steelseries, thanks.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs





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