This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
iio:pressure:mpl3115: Force alignment of buffer
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-testing 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 be merged to the staging-next branch sometime soon,
after it passes testing, and the merge window is open.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 198cf32f0503d2ad60d320b95ef6fb8243db857f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 12:27:40 +0100
Subject: iio:pressure:mpl3115: Force alignment of buffer
Whilst this is another case of the issue Lars reported with
an array of elements of smaller than 8 bytes being passed
to iio_push_to_buffers_with_timestamp(), the solution here is
a bit different from the other cases and relies on __aligned
working on the stack (true since 4.6?)
This one is unusual. We have to do an explicit memset() each time
as we are reading 3 bytes into a potential 4 byte channel which
may sometimes be a 2 byte channel depending on what is enabled.
As such, moving the buffer to the heap in the iio_priv structure
doesn't save us much. We can't use a nice explicit structure
on the stack either as the data channels have different storage
sizes and are all separately controlled.
Fixes: cc26ad455f57 ("iio: Add Freescale MPL3115A2 pressure / temperature sensor driver")
Reported-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <Stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200920112742.170751-7-jic23@xxxxxxxxxx
---
drivers/iio/pressure/mpl3115.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/iio/pressure/mpl3115.c b/drivers/iio/pressure/mpl3115.c
index ccdb0b70e48c..1eb9e7b29e05 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/pressure/mpl3115.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/pressure/mpl3115.c
@@ -144,7 +144,14 @@ static irqreturn_t mpl3115_trigger_handler(int irq, void *p)
struct iio_poll_func *pf = p;
struct iio_dev *indio_dev = pf->indio_dev;
struct mpl3115_data *data = iio_priv(indio_dev);
- u8 buffer[16]; /* 32-bit channel + 16-bit channel + padding + ts */
+ /*
+ * 32-bit channel + 16-bit channel + padding + ts
+ * Note that it is possible for only one of the first 2
+ * channels to be enabled. If that happens, the first element
+ * of the buffer may be either 16 or 32-bits. As such we cannot
+ * use a simple structure definition to express this data layout.
+ */
+ u8 buffer[16] __aligned(8);
int ret, pos = 0;
mutex_lock(&data->lock);
--
2.29.2
