[PATCH 6.12 060/169] iio: imu: st_lsm6dsx: fix iio_chan_spec for sensors without event detection

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-28T15:43:57Z

From: Francesco Lavra <flavra@baylibre.com>

commit c34e2e2d67b3bb8d5a6d09b0d6dac845cdd13fb3 upstream.

The st_lsm6dsx_acc_channels array of struct iio_chan_spec has a non-NULL
event_spec field, indicating support for IIO events. However, event
detection is not supported for all sensors, and if userspace tries to
configure accelerometer wakeup events on a sensor device that does not
support them (e.g. LSM6DS0), st_lsm6dsx_write_event() dereferences a NULL
pointer when trying to write to the wakeup register.
Define an additional struct iio_chan_spec array whose members have a NULL
event_spec field, and use this array instead of st_lsm6dsx_acc_channels for
sensors without event detection capability.

Fixes: b5969abfa8b8 ("iio: imu: st_lsm6dsx: add motion events")
Signed-off-by: Francesco Lavra <flavra@baylibre.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_core.c | 15 +++++++++++----
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_core.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_core.c
@@ -101,6 +101,13 @@ static const struct iio_chan_spec st_lsm
IIO_CHAN_SOFT_TIMESTAMP(3),
};

+static const struct iio_chan_spec st_lsm6ds0_acc_channels[] = {
+ ST_LSM6DSX_CHANNEL(IIO_ACCEL, 0x28, IIO_MOD_X, 0),
+ ST_LSM6DSX_CHANNEL(IIO_ACCEL, 0x2a, IIO_MOD_Y, 1),
+ ST_LSM6DSX_CHANNEL(IIO_ACCEL, 0x2c, IIO_MOD_Z, 2),
+ IIO_CHAN_SOFT_TIMESTAMP(3),
+};
+
static const struct iio_chan_spec st_lsm6dsx_gyro_channels[] = {
ST_LSM6DSX_CHANNEL(IIO_ANGL_VEL, 0x22, IIO_MOD_X, 0),
ST_LSM6DSX_CHANNEL(IIO_ANGL_VEL, 0x24, IIO_MOD_Y, 1),
@@ -142,8 +149,8 @@ static const struct st_lsm6dsx_settings
},
.channels = {
[ST_LSM6DSX_ID_ACC] = {
- .chan = st_lsm6dsx_acc_channels,
- .len = ARRAY_SIZE(st_lsm6dsx_acc_channels),
+ .chan = st_lsm6ds0_acc_channels,
+ .len = ARRAY_SIZE(st_lsm6ds0_acc_channels),
},
[ST_LSM6DSX_ID_GYRO] = {
.chan = st_lsm6ds0_gyro_channels,
@@ -1449,8 +1456,8 @@ static const struct st_lsm6dsx_settings
},
.channels = {
[ST_LSM6DSX_ID_ACC] = {
- .chan = st_lsm6dsx_acc_channels,
- .len = ARRAY_SIZE(st_lsm6dsx_acc_channels),
+ .chan = st_lsm6ds0_acc_channels,
+ .len = ARRAY_SIZE(st_lsm6ds0_acc_channels),
},
[ST_LSM6DSX_ID_GYRO] = {
.chan = st_lsm6dsx_gyro_channels,