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commit02ad21cefbupstream. 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:bc11ca4a0b("iio:magnetometer:ak8975: triggered buffer support") Reported-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> Cc: Gregor Boirie <gregor.boirie@parrot.com> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> Cc: <Stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.