[PATCH] iio: accel: fxls8962af: clamp FIFO sample count
From: Shengzhuo Wei
Date: Wed Aug 05 2026 - 17:15:43 EST
fxls8962af_fifo_flush() copies the number of samples the device reports
in its FIFO status register into an on-stack buffer
u16 buffer[FXLS8962AF_FIFO_LENGTH * 3];
which is sized for at most FXLS8962AF_FIFO_LENGTH (32) samples. The
sample count is read from the BUF_STATUS register and only masked to its
6 valid bits:
count = reg & FXLS8962AF_BUF_STATUS_BUF_CNT;
so it can be 0..63, while the buffer holds 32. The only other limit,
the watermark, is applied on the write path (fxls8962af_set_watermark)
but not here on the read path. count samples are then transferred into
buffer[]:
fxls8962af_fifo_transfer(data, buffer, count);
fxls8962af_fifo_transfer() reads count * 6 bytes through regmap, so a
malfunctioning, malicious or counterfeit accelerometer (or an attacker
tampering with the I2C/SPI bus) that reports up to 63 samples writes up
to 378 bytes into the 192-byte buffer: a stack out-of-bounds write of up
to 186 bytes that clobbers the stack canary, saved registers and the
return address.
Clamp count to FXLS8962AF_FIFO_LENGTH, the number of samples buffer[] is
sized for, before the transfer, mirroring the watermark clamp already
done in fxls8962af_set_watermark(). A well-formed flush reports at most
FXLS8962AF_FIFO_LENGTH samples, so legitimate devices are unaffected.
Fixes: 79e3a5bdd9ef ("iio: accel: fxls8962af: add hw buffered sampling")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: GLM:5.2
Signed-off-by: Shengzhuo Wei <me@xxxxxxxx>
---
This series adds a single patch clamping the device-reported FIFO sample
count in fxls8962af_fifo_flush(), mirroring the bmc150 fix (ce0e1cae2609).
---
drivers/iio/accel/fxls8962af-core.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/iio/accel/fxls8962af-core.c b/drivers/iio/accel/fxls8962af-core.c
index d0c2a8daef0db964134ad10b25782b9f5752613d..3aa96adf3eef8ff525e65ceec9a371da82216ea4 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/accel/fxls8962af-core.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/accel/fxls8962af-core.c
@@ -966,6 +966,7 @@ static int fxls8962af_fifo_flush(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
}
count = reg & FXLS8962AF_BUF_STATUS_BUF_CNT;
+ count = min_t(u8, count, FXLS8962AF_FIFO_LENGTH);
if (!count)
return 0;
---
base-commit: 848acc8ffe1b7cd5f1bf427b93069becfebc2c9d
change-id: 20260806-fxls8962af-fifo-c3812fd02eeb
Best regards,
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Shengzhuo Wei <me@xxxxxxxx>