Adding upstream version 6.8.9.upstream/6.8.9

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
index 176d31d9f9..b581a7e805 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
@@ -413,6 +413,22 @@ static const unsigned long *iio_scan_mask_match(const unsigned long *av_masks,
 {
 	if (bitmap_empty(mask, masklength))
 		return NULL;
+	/*
+	 * The condition here do not handle multi-long masks correctly.
+	 * It only checks the first long to be zero, and will use such mask
+	 * as a terminator even if there was bits set after the first long.
+	 *
+	 * Correct check would require using:
+	 * while (!bitmap_empty(av_masks, masklength))
+	 * instead. This is potentially hazardous because the
+	 * avaliable_scan_masks is a zero terminated array of longs - and
+	 * using the proper bitmap_empty() check for multi-long wide masks
+	 * would require the array to be terminated with multiple zero longs -
+	 * which is not such an usual pattern.
+	 *
+	 * As writing of this no multi-long wide masks were found in-tree, so
+	 * the simple while (*av_masks) check is working.
+	 */
 	while (*av_masks) {
 		if (strict) {
 			if (bitmap_equal(mask, av_masks, masklength))
@@ -600,7 +616,7 @@ static int iio_buffer_add_channel_sysfs(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
 				     &iio_show_fixed_type,
 				     NULL,
 				     0,
-				     0,
+				     IIO_SEPARATE,
 				     &indio_dev->dev,
 				     buffer,
 				     &buffer->buffer_attr_list);
@@ -613,7 +629,7 @@ static int iio_buffer_add_channel_sysfs(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
 					     &iio_scan_el_show,
 					     &iio_scan_el_store,
 					     chan->scan_index,
-					     0,
+					     IIO_SEPARATE,
 					     &indio_dev->dev,
 					     buffer,
 					     &buffer->buffer_attr_list);
@@ -623,7 +639,7 @@ static int iio_buffer_add_channel_sysfs(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
 					     &iio_scan_el_ts_show,
 					     &iio_scan_el_ts_store,
 					     chan->scan_index,
-					     0,
+					     IIO_SEPARATE,
 					     &indio_dev->dev,
 					     buffer,
 					     &buffer->buffer_attr_list);