averello/linux-stable-mirror
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git synced 2026-07-25 16:19:48 +02:00
Code Issues Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

iio: common: st_sensors: honour channel endianness in read_axis_data

Browse Source 
st_sensors_read_axis_data() unconditionally decoded multi-byte
results with get_unaligned_le16() / get_unaligned_le24() regardless
of the channel's declared scan_type.endianness.

For every ST sensor that has used this helper since it was introduced
this happened to be fine because the ST IMU/accel/gyro/pressure
families publish their data registers as little-endian and the
channel specs in those drivers declare IIO_LE accordingly.

The LSM303DLH magnetometer however publishes its X/Y/Z output as a
pair of big-endian bytes (the H register sits at the lower address,
0x03/0x05/0x07, and the L register immediately after), and its
channel specs in st_magn_core.c correctly declare IIO_BE -- but
read_axis_data() ignored that and decoded as little-endian, swapping
the high and low bytes of every magnetometer sample. The LSM303DLHC
and LSM303DLM share the same st_magn_16bit_channels (IIO_BE) and
were therefore byte-swapped by the same bug; users of those parts
will see different in_magn_*_raw values after this fix lands.

The bug is most visible on a stationary chip: in earth's field the
true X reading is small and the high byte sits at 0x00, so swapping
the bytes pins sysfs X at exactly the low byte's pattern (e.g. 0x00F0
= 240). Y and Z still appear "to vary" because their magnitudes are
larger and the noise in the low byte produces big swings in the
swapped high byte:

  before (LSM303DLH flat, sysfs in_magn_*_raw):
      X=240 (stuck), Y= 12032..23296, Z=-16128..-9728

  after (direct i2c-dev big-endian decode, same chip same orientation):
      X≈-4096, Y≈210, Z≈80     (sensible values reflecting earth's
                                ambient field at low gauss range)

Fix read_axis_data() to dispatch on ch->scan_type.endianness and
call get_unaligned_be16() / get_unaligned_be24() when the channel
declares IIO_BE. Existing IIO_LE consumers (st_accel, st_gyro,
st_pressure, st_lsm6dsx and others) are unaffected because their
channel specs already declare IIO_LE and the LE path is unchanged.

While restructuring the branches, replace the previously implicit
silent-success-with-uninitialised-*data fall-through for
byte_for_channel outside 1..3 with an explicit return -EINVAL. No
in-tree ST sensor publishes such a channel, but the new behaviour
is strictly safer than handing userspace garbage.

Fixes: 23491b513b ("iio:common: Add STMicroelectronics common library")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 sparse smatch clang-analyzer coccinelle checkpatch
Assisted-by: Sashiko:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Herman van Hazendonk <github.com@herrie.org>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Herman van Hazendonk
2026-06-29 23:24:47 +01:00
committed by Jonathan Cameron
parent cd5a6a5096
commit 55052184ac
1 changed files with 17 additions and 6 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files
drivers/iio/common/st_sensors/st_sensors_core.c
+17 -6
View File
@@ -498,6 +498,7 @@ static int st_sensors_read_axis_data(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
u8 *outdata;
struct st_sensor_data *sdata = iio_priv(indio_dev);
unsigned int byte_for_channel;
u32 tmp;
byte_for_channel = DIV_ROUND_UP(ch->scan_type.realbits +
ch->scan_type.shift, 8);
@@ -508,12 +509,22 @@ static int st_sensors_read_axis_data(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
if (err < 0)
return err;
if (byte_for_channel == 1)
*data = (s8)*outdata;
else if (byte_for_channel == 2)
*data = (s16)get_unaligned_le16(outdata);
else if (byte_for_channel == 3)
*data = (s32)sign_extend32(get_unaligned_le24(outdata), 23);
if (byte_for_channel == 1) {
tmp = *outdata;
} else if (byte_for_channel == 2) {
if (ch->scan_type.endianness == IIO_BE)
tmp = get_unaligned_be16(outdata);
else
tmp = get_unaligned_le16(outdata);
} else if (byte_for_channel == 3) {
if (ch->scan_type.endianness == IIO_BE)
tmp = get_unaligned_be24(outdata);
else
tmp = get_unaligned_le24(outdata);
} else {
return -EINVAL;
}
*data = sign_extend32(tmp, BYTES_TO_BITS(byte_for_channel) - 1);
return 0;
}