Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: pac1934: check ACPI label duplication

From: Jonathan Cameron

Date: Sun Sep 13 2026 - 13:11:27 EST


On Sun, 13 Sep 2026 20:51:07 +0800
Slavin Liu <bolin.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A label duplication failure currently reaches the terminating-byte
> write. Release the ACPI result and abort before accessing the missing
> label; earlier labels are managed by devres.
>
> Detected by static analysis and reviewed with AI-assisted source auditing.
>
> Fixes: 0fb528c8255b ("iio: adc: adding support for PAC193x")
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Slavin Liu <bolin.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to the fixes-togreg branch of iio.git but as it is a low
priority type of fix (these allocations don't fail in practice except
when things are already in a mess!) it may well wait for the next merge
window.

> ---
> drivers/iio/adc/pac1934.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/pac1934.c b/drivers/iio/adc/pac1934.c
> index 23055405a6e0..de59dc27c440 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/adc/pac1934.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/adc/pac1934.c
> @@ -1108,6 +1108,10 @@ static int pac1934_acpi_parse_channel_config(struct i2c_client *client,
> devm_kmemdup(dev, rez->package.elements[i].string.pointer,
> (size_t)rez->package.elements[i].string.length + 1,
> GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!info->labels[idx]) {
> + ACPI_FREE(rez);
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
> info->labels[idx][rez->package.elements[i].string.length] = '\0';
> info->shunts[idx] = rez->package.elements[i + 1].integer.value * 1000;
> info->active_channels[idx] = (info->shunts[idx] != 0);
>