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iio:magnetometer:mag3110: Fix alignment and data leak issues.
authorJonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Sun, 20 Sep 2020 11:27:37 +0000 (12:27 +0100)
committerJonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Thu, 3 Dec 2020 19:40:27 +0000 (19:40 +0000)
commit89deb1334252ea4a8491d47654811e28b0790364
tree8ff49c2bdcd308d85478474d650f10cdce1e4664
parentd837a996f57c29a985177bc03b0e599082047f27
iio:magnetometer:mag3110: 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 but
does make the code slightly less fragile so I have included it.

Fixes: 39631b5f9584 ("iio: Add Freescale mag3110 magnetometer driver")
Reported-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@analog.com>
Cc: <Stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200920112742.170751-4-jic23@kernel.org
drivers/iio/magnetometer/mag3110.c