[PATCH 2/3] iio: imu: st_lsm6dsx: fix stack leak in tagged FIFO buffer
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Apr 09 2026 - 09:41:11 EST
The tagged FIFO path declares iio_buff on the stack with __aligned(8)
but no initializer, but there is a hole in the structure, which will
then leak to userspace as ST_LSM6DSX_SAMPLE_SIZE bytes (6) will be
copied, but the space between that and the timestamp are not
initialized.
Commit c14edb4d0bdc ("iio:imu:st_lsm6dsx Fix alignment and data leak
issues") moved the untagged FIFO path to a kzalloc'd buffer in hw->scan,
but for the tagged path it only added the alignment qualifier and not
the initializer :(
Fix this by just zero-initializing the structure on the stack.
Cc: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Lechner <dlechner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Nuno Sá" <nuno.sa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: c14edb4d0bdc ("iio:imu:st_lsm6dsx Fix alignment and data leak issues")
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: gregkh_clanker_t1000
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_buffer.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_buffer.c b/drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_buffer.c
index 5b28a3ffcc3d..48291203d1cd 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_buffer.c
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ int st_lsm6dsx_read_tagged_fifo(struct st_lsm6dsx_hw *hw)
* must be passed a buffer that is aligned to 8 bytes so
* as to allow insertion of a naturally aligned timestamp.
*/
- u8 iio_buff[ST_LSM6DSX_IIO_BUFF_SIZE] __aligned(8);
+ u8 iio_buff[ST_LSM6DSX_IIO_BUFF_SIZE] __aligned(8) = { };
u8 tag;
bool reset_ts = false;
int i, err, read_len;
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2.53.0