Jonathan Cameron
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commit7e5ac1f220upstream. 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:a84ef0d181("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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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