The ad7124-4 and ad7124-8 both support 16 channel registers and assigns each channel defined in dt statically such a register. While the driver could be a bit more clever about this, it currently isn't and specifying more than 16 channels yields broken behaviour. So just refuse to bind in this situation. Fixes: b3af341bbd96 ("iio: adc: Add ad7124 support") Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/iio/adc/ad7124.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/ad7124.c b/drivers/iio/adc/ad7124.c index 749304d38415..4de69bb8653a 100644 --- a/drivers/iio/adc/ad7124.c +++ b/drivers/iio/adc/ad7124.c @@ -821,6 +821,16 @@ static int ad7124_parse_channel_config(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, if (!st->num_channels) return dev_err_probe(dev, -ENODEV, "no channel children\n"); + /* + * The driver assigns each logical channel defined in the device tree + * statically one channel register. So only accept 16 such logical + * channels to not treat CONFIG_0 (i.e. the register following + * CHANNEL_15) as an additional channel register. The driver could be + * improved to lift this limitation. + */ + if (st->num_channels > AD7124_MAX_CHANNELS) + return dev_err_probe(dev, -EINVAL, "Too many channels defined\n"); + chan = devm_kcalloc(indio_dev->dev.parent, st->num_channels, sizeof(*chan), GFP_KERNEL); if (!chan) -- 2.45.2