Re: [PATCH v3 10/27] iio:light:rpr0521 Fix timestamp alignment and prevent data leak.

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On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 22:47:46 +0300
Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 6:53 PM Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > 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 an 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().  
> 
> > This data is allocated with kzalloc so no data can leak appart  
> 
> apart
> 
> > from previous readings and in this case the status byte from the device.
> >
> > The forced alignment of ts is not necessary in this case but it
> > potentially makes the code less fragile.  
> 
> ...
> 
> > +        * Note that the read will put garbage data into
> > +        * the padding but this should not be a problem  
> 
> > +               u8 garbage;  
> 
> >         err = regmap_bulk_read(data->regmap, RPR0521_REG_PXS_DATA,
> > -               &buffer,
> > +               data->scan.channels,
> >                 (3 * 2) + 1);   /* 3 * 16-bit + (discarded) int clear reg. */  
> 
> But can't we read the interrupt clear register separately?
> 

Potentially though I have no idea if there is an odd quirk there. I'm not
immediately seeing anything on the datasheet about it.
Would need a tested-by from someone with hardware to confirm it is fine to
do it as two reads though.

Would be nice to get rid of the non standard handling so well worth
pursuing in v4 of this set.

Jonathan





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