[PATCH v5 2/2] staging: iio: adc: ad7816: Use DMA-safe buffer for SPI read

From: Abdelnasser Hussein

Date: Fri Sep 11 2026 - 07:20:31 EST


Stack buffers are unsafe for DMA with VMAP_STACK enabled because
they are not physically contiguous and can share cache lines. This
causes data corruption.

Fix this by using a dedicated rx_buf aligned with IIO_DMA_MINALIGN
in the device state structure to ensure cache coherency.

Fixes: 7024425db64a ("staging: iio: adc: new driver for AD7816 devices")
Signed-off-by: Abdelnasser Hussein <abdelnasserhussein11@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7816.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7816.c b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7816.c
index d0355763aa8f..19da164945c7 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7816.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7816.c
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ struct ad7816_chip_info {
u8 channel_id; /* 0 always be temperature */
u8 mode;
struct mutex lock; /* protect device state during SPI transfers */
+ __be16 rx_buf __aligned(IIO_DMA_MINALIGN);
};

enum ad7816_type {
@@ -68,7 +69,6 @@ static int ad7816_spi_read(struct ad7816_chip_info *chip, u16 *data)
{
struct spi_device *spi_dev = chip->spi_dev;
int ret;
- __be16 buf;

guard(mutex)(&chip->lock);

@@ -96,13 +96,13 @@ static int ad7816_spi_read(struct ad7816_chip_info *chip, u16 *data)

gpiod_set_value(chip->rdwr_pin, 0);
gpiod_set_value(chip->rdwr_pin, 1);
- ret = spi_read(spi_dev, &buf, sizeof(buf));
+ ret = spi_read(spi_dev, &chip->rx_buf, sizeof(chip->rx_buf));
if (ret < 0) {
dev_err(&spi_dev->dev, "SPI data read error\n");
return ret;
}

- *data = be16_to_cpu(buf);
+ *data = be16_to_cpu(chip->rx_buf);

return ret;
}
--
2.54.0