[PATCH v3 1/3] iio: adc: xilinx-ams: fix out-of-bounds channel lookup in event handling

[Salih Erim]

Hi Guilherme,

Replies are inline.

On 4/14/2026 11:40 PM, Guilherme Ivo Bozi wrote:
> ams_event_to_channel() may return a pointer past the end of
> dev->channels when no matching scan_index is found. This can lead
> to invalid memory access in ams_handle_event().
> 
> Add a bounds check in ams_event_to_channel() and return NULL when
> no channel is found. Also guard the caller to safely handle this
> case.
> 
> Fixes: d5c70627a794 ("iio: adc: Add Xilinx AMS driver")
> Signed-off-by: Guilherme Ivo Bozi <guilherme.bozi at usp.br>
> ---
>   drivers/iio/adc/xilinx-ams.c | 5 +++++
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/xilinx-ams.c b/drivers/iio/adc/xilinx-ams.c
> index 124470c92529..6191cd1b29a5 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/adc/xilinx-ams.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/adc/xilinx-ams.c
> @@ -871,6 +871,9 @@ static const struct iio_chan_spec *ams_event_to_channel(struct iio_dev *dev,
>                  if (dev->channels[i].scan_index == scan_index)
>                          break;
> 
> +       if (i == dev->num_channels)
> +               return NULL;
> +
The added lines use spaces for indentation instead of tabs.

Salih