[PATCH v2 1/3] iio: adc: xilinx-ams: fix out-of-bounds channel lookup in event handling

From: Guilherme Ivo Bozi

Date: Tue Apr 14 2026 - 06:34:24 EST


ams_event_to_channel() may return a pointer past the end of
dev->channels when no matching scan_index is found. This can lead
to invalid memory access in ams_handle_event().

Add a bounds check in ams_event_to_channel() and return NULL when
no channel is found. Also guard the caller to safely handle this
case.

Fixes: d5c70627a794 ("iio: adc: Add Xilinx AMS driver")
Signed-off-by: Guilherme Ivo Bozi <guilherme.bozi@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/iio/adc/xilinx-ams.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/xilinx-ams.c b/drivers/iio/adc/xilinx-ams.c
index 124470c92529..f364e69a5a0d 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/adc/xilinx-ams.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/adc/xilinx-ams.c
@@ -871,6 +871,9 @@ static const struct iio_chan_spec *ams_event_to_channel(struct iio_dev *dev,
if (dev->channels[i].scan_index == scan_index)
break;

+ if (i >= dev->num_channels)
+ return NULL;
+
return &dev->channels[i];
}

@@ -1012,6 +1015,8 @@ static void ams_handle_event(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, u32 event)
const struct iio_chan_spec *chan;

chan = ams_event_to_channel(indio_dev, event);
+ if (!chan)
+ return;

if (chan->type == IIO_TEMP) {
/*
--
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