Re: [PATCH v2] iio: adc: ad7606_spi: add offload scan mask check

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Fri, 2 May 2025 21:21:49 +0300
Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, May 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM David Lechner <dlechner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Validate the scan mask when SPI offloading is being used.
> >
> > Since this family of ADCs is simultaneous sampling, there isn't a way
> > to selectively disable channels when reading sample data. (Technically,
> > AD7616 has a sequencer so could have some control, but that is for  
> 
> so it could
tweaked to 
so the driver could
given 'it' would otherwise refer to the chip rather than the software.

Good catch.

Applied.

> 
> > another day).
> >
> > For "regular" IIO triggered buffer reads, this isn't a problem and the
> > IIO core will demux the data and ignore data from disabled channels.
> > However, since SPI offloading is done completely in hardware, we don't
> > have a way to do the same. So before this patch, if less than all
> > channels were enabled, the data would be misplaced in the buffer.
> >
> > By adding a check in update_scan_mode, we can fail to enable the buffer
> > instead of having bad data returned to userspace.  
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy@xxxxxxxxxx>
>