xkb: merge lockedPtrButtons state from all attached SDs.

Problem:
lockedPtrButtons keeps the state of the buttons locked by a PointerKeys button
press. Unconditionally clearing the bits may cause stuck buttons in this
sequence of events:

1. type Shift + NumLock to enable PointerKeys
2. type 0/Ins on keypad to emulate Button 1 press
        → button1 press event to client
3. press and release button 1 on physical mouse
        → button1 release event to client

Button 1 on the MD is now stuck and cannot be released.

Cause:
XKB PointerKeys button events are posted through the XTEST pointer device.
Once a press is generated, the XTEST device's button is down. The DIX merges
the button state of all attached SDs, hence the MD will have a button down
while the XTEST device has a button down.

PointerKey button events are only generated on the master device to avoid
duplicate events (see XkbFakeDeviceButton()). If the MD has the
lockedPtrButtons bit cleared by a release event on a physical device, no
such event is generated when a keyboard device triggers the PointerKey
ButtonRelease trigger. Since the event - if generated - is posted through
the XTEST pointer device, lack of a generated ButtonRelease event on the
XTEST pointer device means the button is never released, resulting in the
stuck button observed above.

Solution:
This patch merges the MD's lockedPtrButtons with the one of all attached
slave devices on release events. Thus, as long as one attached keyboard has
a lockedPtrButtons bit set, this bit is kept in the MD. Once a PointerKey
button is released on all keyboards, the matching release event is emulated
from the MD through the XTEST pointer device, thus also releasing the button
in the DIX.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Reviewed-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/xkbsrv.h b/include/xkbsrv.h
index 5847e6395..956b2249b 100644
--- a/include/xkbsrv.h
+++ b/include/xkbsrv.h
@@ -924,6 +924,9 @@ extern int XkbGetEffectiveGroup(
         XkbStatePtr             /* xkbstate */,
         CARD8                   /* keycode */);
 
+extern void XkbMergeLockedPtrBtns(
+        DeviceIntPtr            /* master */);
+
 #include "xkbfile.h"
 #include "xkbrules.h"