iio:health:afe4403 Fix timestamp alignment and prevent data leak.

Browse source

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 32 byte 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 with alignment
explicitly requested.  This data is allocated with kzalloc so no
data can leak appart from previous readings.

Fixes: eec96d1e2d ("iio: health: Add driver for the TI AFE4403 heart monitor")
Reported-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Andrew F. Davis <afd@ti.com>
Cc: <Stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>

...

This commit is contained in:

Jonathan Cameron 2020-05-17 18:29:56 +01:00

parent b791d1bdf9

commit 3f9c6d3879

1 changed files with 6 additions and 3 deletions

Show all changes Ignore whitespace when comparing lines Ignore changes in amount of whitespace Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL

Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

9

drivers/iio/health/afe4403.c

View file