This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
iio: Fix scan mask selection
to my staging git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
in the staging-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 20ea39ef9f2f911bd01c69519e7d69cfec79fde3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 17:11:32 +0200
Subject: iio: Fix scan mask selection
The trialmask is expected to have all bits set to 0 after allocation.
Currently kmalloc_array() is used which does not zero the memory and so
random bits are set. This results in random channels being enabled when
they shouldn't. Replace kmalloc_array() with kcalloc() which has the same
interface but zeros the memory.
Note the fix is actually required earlier than the below fixes tag, but
will require a manual backport due to move from kmalloc to kmalloc_array.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes commit 057ac1acdfc4 ("iio: Use kmalloc_array() in iio_scan_mask_set()").
Cc: <Stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
index cd5bfe39591b..dadd921a4a30 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
@@ -320,9 +320,8 @@ static int iio_scan_mask_set(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
const unsigned long *mask;
unsigned long *trialmask;
- trialmask = kmalloc_array(BITS_TO_LONGS(indio_dev->masklength),
- sizeof(*trialmask),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ trialmask = kcalloc(BITS_TO_LONGS(indio_dev->masklength),
+ sizeof(*trialmask), GFP_KERNEL);
if (trialmask == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
if (!indio_dev->masklength) {
--
2.21.0
