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

iio:light:ltr501 Fix timestamp alignment issue.

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 2684d5003490df5398aeafe2592ba9d4a4653998 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:50:48 +0100 Subject: iio:light:ltr501 Fix timestamp alignment issue.

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. Here we use a structure on the stack. The driver already did an explicit memset so no data leak was possible.

Forced alignment of ts is not strictly necessary but probably makes the code slightly less fragile.

Note there has been some rework in this driver of the years, so no way this will apply cleanly all the way back.

Fixes: 2690be905123 ("iio: Add Lite-On ltr501 ambient light / proximity sensor driver") Reported-by: Lars-Peter Clausen lars@metafoo.de Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko@gmail.com Cc: Stable@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/iio/light/ltr501.c | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/light/ltr501.c b/drivers/iio/light/ltr501.c index 4bac0646398d..b4323d2db0b1 100644 --- a/drivers/iio/light/ltr501.c +++ b/drivers/iio/light/ltr501.c @@ -1243,13 +1243,16 @@ static irqreturn_t ltr501_trigger_handler(int irq, void *p) struct iio_poll_func *pf = p; struct iio_dev *indio_dev = pf->indio_dev; struct ltr501_data *data = iio_priv(indio_dev); - u16 buf[8]; + struct { + u16 channels[3]; + s64 ts __aligned(8); + } scan; __le16 als_buf[2]; u8 mask = 0; int j = 0; int ret, psdata;

- memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf)); + memset(&scan, 0, sizeof(scan));

/* figure out which data needs to be ready */ if (test_bit(0, indio_dev->active_scan_mask) || @@ -1268,9 +1271,9 @@ static irqreturn_t ltr501_trigger_handler(int irq, void *p) if (ret < 0) return ret; if (test_bit(0, indio_dev->active_scan_mask)) - buf[j++] = le16_to_cpu(als_buf[1]); + scan.channels[j++] = le16_to_cpu(als_buf[1]); if (test_bit(1, indio_dev->active_scan_mask)) - buf[j++] = le16_to_cpu(als_buf[0]); + scan.channels[j++] = le16_to_cpu(als_buf[0]); }

if (mask & LTR501_STATUS_PS_RDY) { @@ -1278,10 +1281,10 @@ static irqreturn_t ltr501_trigger_handler(int irq, void *p) &psdata, 2); if (ret < 0) goto done; - buf[j++] = psdata & LTR501_PS_DATA_MASK; + scan.channels[j++] = psdata & LTR501_PS_DATA_MASK; }

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

done: