staging: comedi: dmm32at: Fix endian problem for AI command data
authorIan Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:30:47 +0000 (14:30 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:03:55 +0000 (17:03 +0100)
commite70294943c89912c878e533d95908fa6fb656ee1
tree6bca1ad1c3a56043e08f8e4c6e308b16713776fd
parent47a2af64eea32773e67a788b3da655fda96482b7
staging: comedi: dmm32at: Fix endian problem for AI command data

commit 54999c0d94b3c26625f896f8e3460bc029821578 upstream.

The analog input subdevice supports Comedi asynchronous commands that
use Comedi's 16-bit sample format.  However, the call to
`comedi_buf_write_samples()` is passing the address of a 32-bit integer
variable.  On bigendian machines, this will copy 2 bytes from the wrong
end of the 32-bit value.  Fix it by changing the type of the variable
holding the sample value to `unsigned short`.

[Note: the bug was introduced in commit 1700529b24cc ("staging: comedi:
dmm32at: use comedi_buf_write_samples()") but the patch applies better
to the later (but in the same kernel release) commit 0c0eadadcbe6e
("staging: comedi: dmm32at: introduce dmm32_ai_get_sample()").]

Fixes: 0c0eadadcbe6e ("staging: comedi: dmm32at: introduce dmm32_ai_get_sample()")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.19+
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210223143055.257402-7-abbotti@mev.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/dmm32at.c