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

iio:accel:mma7455: Fix timestamp alignment and prevent data leak.

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.

From 7e5ac1f2206eda414f90c698fe1820dee873394d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:50:40 +0100 Subject: iio:accel:mma7455: Fix timestamp alignment and prevent data leak.

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 a 16 byte u8 array 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 with alignment ensured by use of an explicit c structure. This data is allocated with kzalloc so no data can leak appart from previous readings.

The force alignment of ts is not strictly necessary in this particularly case but does make the code less fragile.

Fixes: a84ef0d181d9 ("iio: accel: add Freescale MMA7455L/MMA7456L 3-axis accelerometer driver") Reported-by: Lars-Peter Clausen lars@metafoo.de Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com Cc: Stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko@gmail.com --- drivers/iio/accel/mma7455_core.c | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/accel/mma7455_core.c b/drivers/iio/accel/mma7455_core.c index 7e99bcb3398d..922bd38ff6ea 100644 --- a/drivers/iio/accel/mma7455_core.c +++ b/drivers/iio/accel/mma7455_core.c @@ -52,6 +52,14 @@

struct mma7455_data { struct regmap *regmap; + /* + * Used to reorganize data. Will ensure correct alignment of + * the timestamp if present + */ + struct { + __le16 channels[3]; + s64 ts __aligned(8); + } scan; };

static int mma7455_drdy(struct mma7455_data *mma7455) @@ -82,19 +90,19 @@ static irqreturn_t mma7455_trigger_handler(int irq, void *p) struct iio_poll_func *pf = p; struct iio_dev *indio_dev = pf->indio_dev; struct mma7455_data *mma7455 = iio_priv(indio_dev); - u8 buf[16]; /* 3 x 16-bit channels + padding + ts */ int ret;

ret = mma7455_drdy(mma7455); if (ret) goto done;

- ret = regmap_bulk_read(mma7455->regmap, MMA7455_REG_XOUTL, buf, - sizeof(__le16) * 3); + ret = regmap_bulk_read(mma7455->regmap, MMA7455_REG_XOUTL, + mma7455->scan.channels, + sizeof(mma7455->scan.channels)); if (ret) goto done;

- iio_push_to_buffers_with_timestamp(indio_dev, buf, + iio_push_to_buffers_with_timestamp(indio_dev, &mma7455->scan, iio_get_time_ns(indio_dev));

done: