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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.4 047/215] iio:humidity:hdc100x Fix alignment and data
 leak issues
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     stable@vger.kernel.org, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
        Matt Ranostay <matt.ranostay@konsulko.com>,
        Alison Schofield <amsfield22@gmail.com>,
        Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Date:   Mon, 20 Jul 2020 09:50:26 -0700
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On Mon, 2020-07-20 at 17:35 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
> 
> commit ea5e7a7bb6205d24371373cd80325db1bc15eded upstream.
> 
> 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() data.
> This data is allocated with kzalloc so no data can leak apart
> from previous readings.
[]
> +++ b/drivers/iio/humidity/hdc100x.c
> @@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ struct hdc100x_data {
>  
>  	/* integration time of the sensor */
>  	int adc_int_us[2];
> +	/* Ensure natural alignment of timestamp */
> +	struct {
> +		__be16 channels[2];
> +		s64 ts __aligned(8);

Why does an s64 need __aligned(8) ?
This seems needlessly redundant.

Isn't this naturally aligned by the compiler?

The struct isn't packed.