This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

iio:magnetometer:ak8974: Fix alignment and data leak issues

to my staging git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git in the staging-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

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From: Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 16:53:49 +0100 Subject: iio:magnetometer:ak8974: 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 appart from previous readings.

Fixes: 7c94a8b2ee8cf ("iio: magn: add a driver for AK8974") Reported-by: Lars-Peter Clausen lars@metafoo.de Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij linus.walleij@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com Cc: Stable@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/iio/magnetometer/ak8974.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/magnetometer/ak8974.c b/drivers/iio/magnetometer/ak8974.c index 041c9007bfbe..91c39352fba2 100644 --- a/drivers/iio/magnetometer/ak8974.c +++ b/drivers/iio/magnetometer/ak8974.c @@ -192,6 +192,11 @@ struct ak8974 { bool drdy_irq; struct completion drdy_complete; bool drdy_active_low; + /* Ensure timestamp is naturally aligned */ + struct { + __le16 channels[3]; + s64 ts __aligned(8); + } scan; };

static const char ak8974_reg_avdd[] = "avdd"; @@ -657,7 +662,6 @@ static void ak8974_fill_buffer(struct iio_dev *indio_dev) { struct ak8974 *ak8974 = iio_priv(indio_dev); int ret; - __le16 hw_values[8]; /* Three axes + 64bit padding */

pm_runtime_get_sync(&ak8974->i2c->dev); mutex_lock(&ak8974->lock); @@ -667,13 +671,13 @@ static void ak8974_fill_buffer(struct iio_dev *indio_dev) dev_err(&ak8974->i2c->dev, "error triggering measure\n"); goto out_unlock; } - ret = ak8974_getresult(ak8974, hw_values); + ret = ak8974_getresult(ak8974, ak8974->scan.channels); if (ret) { dev_err(&ak8974->i2c->dev, "error getting measures\n"); goto out_unlock; }

- iio_push_to_buffers_with_timestamp(indio_dev, hw_values, + iio_push_to_buffers_with_timestamp(indio_dev, &ak8974->scan, iio_get_time_ns(indio_dev));

out_unlock: