[PATCH] iio: adc: ad4030: fix invalid oversampling_ratio validation

From: Salah Triki

Date: Fri Aug 21 2026 - 22:19:55 EST


ad4030_set_avg_frame_len() computes avg_log2 = ilog2(avg_val) before
validating avg_val, and the subsequent range check only rejects
negative values or values above the maximum supported OSR. It does
not reject avg_val == 0, nor values that are not exact powers of 2.

- avg_val == 0 passes the check (0 is not < 0 and not > max), so
ilog2(0) is called with an undefined/garbage result.

- Non-power-of-2 values (e.g. avg_val == 3) also pass the check and
silently get rounded down by ilog2() to the nearest lower power of
2, so userspace can write a value to the oversampling_ratio sysfs
attribute that does not match what actually gets programmed into
hardware, without any error being reported.

Only powers of 2 in [1, 65536] are valid OSR values, as listed in
ad4030_average_modes[]. Validate avg_val fully before computing its
log2, using is_power_of_2() and requiring avg_val > 0.

Fixes: 949abd1ca5a4 ("iio: adc: ad4030: add averaging support")
Signed-off-by: Salah Triki <salah.triki@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/iio/adc/ad4030.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/ad4030.c b/drivers/iio/adc/ad4030.c
index 9c5f19321e3b..93d9f143cc91 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/adc/ad4030.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/adc/ad4030.c
@@ -751,9 +751,11 @@ static int ad4030_set_avg_frame_len(struct iio_dev *dev, int avg_val)
int freq_hz;
int ret;

- if (avg_val < 0 || avg_val > ad4030_average_modes[last_avg_idx])
+ if (avg_val <= 0 || avg_val > ad4030_average_modes[last_avg_idx] || !is_power_of_2(avg_val))
return -EINVAL;

+ avg_log2 = ilog2(avg_val);
+
if (st->offload_trigger) {
/*
* The sample averaging and sampling frequency configurations
--
2.43.0