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Commit 02ad21ce authored by Jonathan Cameron's avatar Jonathan Cameron
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iio:magnetometer:ak8975 Fix alignment and data leak issues.



One of a class of bugs pointed out by Lars in a recent review.
iio_push_to_buffers_with_timestamp assumes the buffer used is aligned
to the size of the timestamp (8 bytes).  This is not guaranteed in
this driver which uses an array of smaller elements on the stack.
As Lars also noted this anti pattern can involve a leak of data to
userspace and that indeed can happen here.  We close both issues by
moving to a suitable structure in the iio_priv() data.

This data is allocated with kzalloc so no data can leak apart from
previous readings.

The explicit alignment of ts is not necessary in this case as by
coincidence the padding will end up the same, however I consider
it to make the code less fragile and have included it.

Fixes: bc11ca4a ("iio:magnetometer:ak8975: triggered buffer support")
Reported-by: default avatarLars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Cc: Gregor Boirie <gregor.boirie@parrot.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: <Stable@vger.kernel.org>
parent 2684d500
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