From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
To: Arnav Kapoor <kapoorarnav43@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jonathan Cameron" <jic23@kernel.org>,
"David Lechner" <dlechner@baylibre.com>,
"Nuno Sá" <nuno.sa@analog.com>,
"Andy Shevchenko" <andy@kernel.org>,
linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: proximity: sx9324: fix out-of-bounds read of scan
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:40:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ato8fTSWub91Fy2R@ashevche-desk.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261021225417.626946-1-kapoorarnav43@gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 22, 2026 at 04:24:11AM +0530, Arnav Kapoor wrote:
> The scan period of the SX9324 is selected by the 5 bit wide
> SX9324_REG_GNRL_CTRL0_SCANPERIOD field, so it has 32 possible values.
> sx9324_scan_period_table[] however only has 16 entries, it was copied
> over from the SX9310 driver where the field is only 4 bits wide.
>
> sx9324_wait_for_sample() indexes the table with the raw field value, so
> all the codes from 16 to 31 read past the end of the array. The default
> value of the register is SX9324_REG_GNRL_CTRL0_SCANPERIOD_100MS (0x16,
> i.e. 22), so the out-of-bounds read happens with the default
> configuration of the device. It is only avoided when the device has an
> interrupt line, as the wait is only done in the polling case.
>
> The value read is then used as the duration of an msleep() call, so the
> sensor is polled with a completely random delay.
>
> Fill the table with the scan periods of all 32 codes, which are the
> periods documented for the corresponding sx9324_samp_freq_table[]
> entries, and add a static assertion to keep both tables in sync.
...
> static const unsigned int sx9324_scan_period_table[] = {
> - 2, 15, 30, 45, 60, 90, 120, 200,
> - 400, 600, 800, 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000,
> + 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50,
> + 56, 62, 68, 74, 80, 90, 100, 200, 300, 400, 600, 800, 1000,
> + 2000, 3000, 4000,
NAK to this hunk.
Homework:
read my comments regarding formatting such arrays in linux-iio@ mailing list
for last calendar year or so and summarize the idea.
> };
...
> +static_assert(ARRAY_SIZE(sx9324_scan_period_table) ==
> + ARRAY_SIZE(sx9324_samp_freq_table));
This is fine, but I would dare make it a single line.
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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