[RFT PATCH v3 10/10] iio: Don't silently expect attribute types

[Matti Vaittinen]

Hi Claudiu,

On 10/6/22 11:35, Claudiu.Beznea at microchip.com wrote:
> On 03.10.2022 11:13, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
>> The iio_triggered_buffer_setup_ext() and the
>> devm_iio_kfifo_buffer_setup_ext() were changed by
>> commit 15097c7a1adc ("iio: buffer: wrap all buffer attributes into iio_dev_attr")
>> to silently expect that all attributes given in buffer_attrs array are
>> device-attributes. This expectation was not forced by the API - and some
>> drivers did register attributes created by IIO_CONST_ATTR().
>>
>> When using IIO_CONST_ATTRs the added attribute "wrapping" does not copy
>> the pointer to stored string constant and when the sysfs file is read the
>> kernel will access to invalid location.
>>
>> Change the function signatures to expect an array of iio_dev_attrs to
>> avoid similar errors in the future.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount at gmail.com>
> 
> Tested-by: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea at microchip.com>
> 
> on SAMA5D2
> 

Thanks a ton for the testing! I do _really_ appreciate it :) I am now 
slightly more confident regarding the fix here - and a lot more 
confident that we do have an actual bug (as you explained in the reply 
to the first RFT) :)

Yours
	-- Matti

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Matti Vaittinen
Linux kernel developer at ROHM Semiconductors
Oulu Finland

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