[PATCH] iio: sanity check available_scan_masks array

[Matti Vaittinen]

When IIO goes through the available scan masks in order to select the
best suiting one, it will just accept the first listed subset of channels
which meets the user's requirements. If driver lists a mask which is a
subset of some of the masks previously in the array of
avaliable_scan_masks, then the latter one will never be selected.

Add a warning if driver registers masks which can't be used due to the
available_scan_masks-array ordering.

Suggested-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@xxxxxxxxx>

---
The change was suggested by Jonathan here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230924170726.41443502@jic23-huawei/
---
 drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
index c77745b594bd..d4f37f4eeec0 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
@@ -1896,6 +1896,53 @@ static int iio_check_extended_name(const struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
 
 static const struct iio_buffer_setup_ops noop_ring_setup_ops;
 
+static void iio_sanity_check_avail_scan_masks(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
+{
+	unsigned int num_masks, masklength, longs_per_mask;
+	const unsigned long *av_masks;
+	int i;
+
+	av_masks = indio_dev->available_scan_masks;
+	masklength = indio_dev->masklength;
+	longs_per_mask = BITS_TO_LONGS(masklength);
+
+	if (bitmap_empty(av_masks, masklength))
+		dev_warn(indio_dev->dev.parent, "empty scan mask\n");
+
+	for (num_masks = 0; *av_masks; num_masks++)
+		av_masks += longs_per_mask;
+
+	if (num_masks < 2)
+		return;
+
+	av_masks = indio_dev->available_scan_masks;
+
+	/*
+	 * Go through all the masks from first to one before the last, and see
+	 * that no mask found later from the available_scan_masks array is a
+	 * subset of mask found earlier. If this happens, then the mask found
+	 * later will never get used because scanning the array is stopped when
+	 * the first suitable mask is found. Drivers should order the array of
+	 * available masks in the order of preference (presumably the least
+	 * costy to access masks first).
+	 */
+	for (i = 0; i < num_masks - 1; i++) {
+		const unsigned long *mask1;
+		int j;
+
+		mask1 = av_masks + i * longs_per_mask;
+		for (j = i + 1; j < num_masks; j++) {
+			const unsigned long *mask2;
+
+			mask2 = av_masks + j * longs_per_mask;
+			if (bitmap_subset(mask2, mask1, masklength))
+				dev_warn(indio_dev->dev.parent,
+					 "available_scan_mask %d subset of %d. Never used\n",
+					 j, i);
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 int __iio_device_register(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, struct module *this_mod)
 {
 	struct iio_dev_opaque *iio_dev_opaque = to_iio_dev_opaque(indio_dev);
@@ -1934,6 +1981,16 @@ int __iio_device_register(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, struct module *this_mod)
 		goto error_unreg_debugfs;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * In order to not wreck utter havoc we just warn for now. Might want
+	 * to convert this to a failure after people have had time to act upon
+	 * the warning. It'd be nice to check this earlier, but we need the
+	 * iio_buffers_alloc_sysfs_and_mask() to have the masklength set.
+	 */
+	if (indio_dev->available_scan_masks)
+		iio_sanity_check_avail_scan_masks(indio_dev);
+
+
 	ret = iio_device_register_sysfs(indio_dev);
 	if (ret) {
 		dev_err(indio_dev->dev.parent,

base-commit: 5e99f692d4e32e3250ab18d511894ca797407aec
-- 
2.41.0


-- 
Matti Vaittinen, Linux device drivers
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