[PATCH 6.19 230/311] iio: imu: st_lsm6dsx: Set buffer sampling frequency for accelerometer only

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-08T18:59:40Z

From: Francesco Lavra <flavra@baylibre.com>

commit 679c04c10d65d32a3f269e696b22912ff0a001b9 upstream.

The st_lsm6dsx_hwfifo_odr_store() function, which is called when userspace
writes the buffer sampling frequency sysfs attribute, calls
st_lsm6dsx_check_odr(), which accesses the odr_table array at index
`sensor->id`; since this array is only 2 entries long, an access for any
sensor type other than accelerometer or gyroscope is an out-of-bounds
access.

The motivation for being able to set a buffer frequency different from the
sensor sampling frequency is to support use cases that need accurate event
detection (which requires a high sampling frequency) while retrieving
sensor data at low frequency. Since all the supported event types are
generated from acceleration data only, do not create the buffer sampling
frequency attribute for sensor types other than the accelerometer.

Fixes: 6b648a36c200 ("iio: imu: st_lsm6dsx: Decouple sensor ODR from FIFO batch data rate")
Signed-off-by: Francesco Lavra <flavra@baylibre.com>
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_buffer.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_buffer.c
@@ -862,12 +862,21 @@ int st_lsm6dsx_fifo_setup(struct st_lsm6
int i, ret;

for (i = 0; i < ST_LSM6DSX_ID_MAX; i++) {
+ const struct iio_dev_attr **attrs;
+
if (!hw->iio_devs[i])
continue;

+ /*
+ * For the accelerometer, allow setting FIFO sampling frequency
+ * values different from the sensor sampling frequency, which
+ * may be needed to keep FIFO data rate low while sampling
+ * acceleration data at high rates for accurate event detection.
+ */
+ attrs = i == ST_LSM6DSX_ID_ACC ? st_lsm6dsx_buffer_attrs : NULL;
ret = devm_iio_kfifo_buffer_setup_ext(hw->dev, hw->iio_devs[i],
&st_lsm6dsx_buffer_ops,
- st_lsm6dsx_buffer_attrs);
+ attrs);
if (ret)
return ret;
}