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events: Remove events unrelated to sliders

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Niklas Dusenlund

68/100 · Adequate
events: Remove events unrelated to sliders

Using events for communication between components in the same screen
seem to make things racy, simplify/sequentialize by using callbacks
instead.

Keep events only for external events like slider inputs.
✓ Descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component✓ Provides detailed explanatory context
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit rewrites how on-screen buttons and gestures in the BitBox02 hardware wallet talk to each other. Previously, pressing a button or completing a gesture posted a global 'event' that other parts of the screen had to listen for, which the developer describes as 'racy.' The change replaces that with direct function callbacks, so a button press immediately calls the intended action in a predictable order. This is a code-quality and robustness improvement rather than a fix for a known exploitable bug, but race-prone event systems can in principle lead to wrong buttons being acted upon or actions happening twice.

Recommended action

Treat this as a defensive hardening change. Review that all callback user_data pointers are correctly initialized and that no component still expects the removed events. Verify that the remaining external event handling still correctly filters events by slider location and does not introduce new NULL callback dereferences. No urgent patch is required unless further review finds a concrete race or use-after-free.

Security signals we found

01

Elimination of a global event bus for internal UI actions

02

Replacement of emit_event()/on_event dispatch with direct callbacks

03

Developer note describing the old pattern as 'racy'

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Reduction in event IDs in src/ui/event.h

05

Callback user_data is consistently the parent component pointer, narrowing scope

Risk score

Why this scored 32/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 8/30
Exploitability 5/25
Stealth signal 4/15
Affected reach 6/15
Confidence 6/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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