diff --git a/drivers/iio/orientation/hid-sensor-rotation.c b/drivers/iio/orientation/hid-sensor-rotation.c
index 6806481873be..5a5e6e4fbe34 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/orientation/hid-sensor-rotation.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/orientation/hid-sensor-rotation.c
@@ -20,7 +20,12 @@ struct dev_rot_state {
 	struct hid_sensor_hub_attribute_info quaternion;
 	struct {
 		IIO_DECLARE_QUATERNION(s32, sampled_vals);
-		aligned_s64 timestamp;
+		/*
+		 * ABI regression avoidance: There are two copies of the same
+		 * timestamp in case of userspace depending on broken alignment
+		 * from older kernels.
+		 */
+		aligned_s64 timestamp[2];
 	} scan;
 	int scale_pre_decml;
 	int scale_post_decml;
@@ -154,8 +159,19 @@ static int dev_rot_proc_event(struct hid_sensor_hub_device *hsdev,
 		if (!rot_state->timestamp)
 			rot_state->timestamp = iio_get_time_ns(indio_dev);
 
-		iio_push_to_buffers_with_timestamp(indio_dev, &rot_state->scan,
-						   rot_state->timestamp);
+		/*
+		 * ABI regression avoidance: IIO previously had an incorrect
+		 * implementation of iio_push_to_buffers_with_timestamp() that
+		 * put the timestamp in the last 8 bytes of the buffer, which
+		 * was incorrect according to the IIO ABI. To avoid breaking
+		 * userspace that may be depending on this broken behavior, we
+		 * put the timestamp in both the correct place [0] and the old
+		 * incorrect place [1].
+		 */
+		rot_state->scan.timestamp[0] = rot_state->timestamp;
+		rot_state->scan.timestamp[1] = rot_state->timestamp;
+
+		iio_push_to_buffers(indio_dev, &rot_state->scan);
 
 		rot_state->timestamp = 0;
 	}