[PATCH v3 2/2] staging: iio: ad7816: avoid DMA from stack in spi_read
Abdelnasser Hussein <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Aug 2026 16:43:46 +0300
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-iio,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
The SPI transfer buffer is allocated on the stack, which is unsafe when
the SPI core performs DMA transfers. With VMAP_STACK enabled, this can
lead to DMA mapping failures because the stack is not guaranteed to be
DMA-accessible.
Move the buffer into struct ad7816_chip_info to provide storage with an
appropriate lifetime for DMA, align it with
__aligned(IIO_DMA_MINALIGN), and update the spi_read() sizeof() argument
to reference the relocated buffer.
Fixes: 7924425db04a ("staging: iio: adc: new driver for AD7816 devices")
Signed-off-by: Abdelnasser Hussein <[email protected]>
---
drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7816.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7816.c b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7816.c
index b5a0c2871e00..c58a6bf77020 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7816.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7816.c
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ struct ad7816_chip_info {
u8 channel_id; /* 0 always be temperature */
u8 mode;
struct mutex lock; /* protect device state during SPI transfers */
+ __be16 rx_buf __aligned(IIO_DMA_MINALIGN);
};
enum ad7816_type {
@@ -66,7 +67,6 @@ static int ad7816_spi_read(struct ad7816_chip_info *chip, u16 *data)
{
struct spi_device *spi_dev = chip->spi_dev;
int ret;
- __be16 buf;
mutex_lock(&chip->lock);
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static int ad7816_spi_read(struct ad7816_chip_info *chip, u16 *data)
gpiod_set_value(chip->rdwr_pin, 0);
gpiod_set_value(chip->rdwr_pin, 1);
- ret = spi_read(spi_dev, &buf, sizeof(*data));
+ ret = spi_read(spi_dev, &chip->rx_buf, sizeof(chip->rx_buf));
if (ret < 0) {
dev_err(&spi_dev->dev, "SPI data read error\n");
mutex_unlock(&chip->lock);
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static int ad7816_spi_read(struct ad7816_chip_info *chip, u16 *data)
return ret;
}
- *data = be16_to_cpu(buf);
+ *data = be16_to_cpu(chip->rx_buf);
mutex_unlock(&chip->lock);
return ret;
}
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