The previous code only made sense if one considers buttons and keys to
be mutually exclusive on a device. That is not necessarily true, causing
a number of issues.
This function allocates and fills in the number of xEvents we need to
send the device state down the wire. This is split across multiple
32-byte devices including one deviceStateNotify event and optional
deviceKeyStateNotify, deviceButtonStateNotify and (possibly multiple)
deviceValuator events.
The previous behavior would instead compose a sequence
of [state, buttonstate, state, keystate, valuator...]. This is not
protocol correct, and on top of that made the code extremely convoluted.
Fix this by streamlining: add both button and key into the deviceStateNotify
and then append the key state and button state, followed by the
valuators. Finally, the deviceValuator events contain up to 6 valuators
per event but we only ever sent through 3 at a time. Let's double that
troughput.
CVE-2024-0229, ZDI-CAN-22678
This vulnerability was discovered by:
Jan-Niklas Sohn working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
(cherry picked from commit 219c54b8a3)
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