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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
To: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
	dlechner@baylibre.com, nuno.sa@analog.com, andy@kernel.org,
	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: pressure: bmp280: zero-init bmp580 trigger handler buffer
Date: Wed, 6 May 2026 12:14:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <afsGZOxaJFvgLKgw@ashevche-desk.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260505173455.181358-1-devnexen@gmail.com>

On Tue, May 05, 2026 at 06:34:55PM +0100, David Carlier wrote:
> bmp580_trigger_handler() builds an on-stack scan buffer containing
> two __le32 fields and an aligned_s64 timestamp, and pushes it to
> userspace via iio_push_to_buffers_with_ts(). However, only the low
> 3 bytes of each __le32 field are populated by the device data:
> 
> 	memcpy(&buffer.comp_press, &data->buf[3], 3);
> 	memcpy(&buffer.comp_temp,  &data->buf[0], 3);
> 
> The high byte of each field is left uninitialised on the stack.
> The bmp580 channels declare storagebits = 32, so the IIO core
> transports all four bytes per sample to userspace as part of the
> scan element, leaking two bytes of kernel stack per scan.
> 
> Zero-initialise the buffer before populating it, mirroring the fix
> applied to bme280_trigger_handler() in commit 018f50909e66 ("iio:
> bmp280: zero-init buffer").

Same Q, is any part of the above, including the initial report/analysis
AI assisted? If so, you have to mentioned this in the respective
Reported-by:/Closes:/et cetera tags.

...

>  	} buffer;

 	} buffer = { };

will suffice.

>  	int ret;
>  
> +	memset(&buffer, 0, sizeof(buffer));

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



      reply	other threads:[~2026-05-06  9:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-05 17:34 [PATCH] iio: pressure: bmp280: zero-init bmp580 trigger handler buffer David Carlier
2026-05-06  9:14 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]

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