diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/accel/lis3l02dq_ring.c b/drivers/staging/iio/accel/lis3l02dq_ring.c
index 36dcc7e0b90d..aae86ddd658b 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/iio/accel/lis3l02dq_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/iio/accel/lis3l02dq_ring.c
@@ -146,11 +146,7 @@ static irqreturn_t lis3l02dq_trigger_handler(int irq, void *p)
 	if (!bitmap_empty(indio_dev->active_scan_mask, indio_dev->masklength))
 		len = lis3l02dq_get_buffer_element(indio_dev, data);
 
-	  /* Guaranteed to be aligned with 8 byte boundary */
-	if (indio_dev->scan_timestamp)
-		*(s64 *)((u8 *)data + ALIGN(len, sizeof(s64)))
-			= pf->timestamp;
-	iio_push_to_buffers(indio_dev, data);
+	iio_push_to_buffers_with_timestamp(indio_dev, data, pf->timestamp);
 
 	kfree(data);
 done: