[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 036/121] serial: Fix divide-by-zero fault in uart_get_divisor()

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Dec 2 19:18:35 UTC 2014


3.13.11-ckt12 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Peter Hurley <peter at hurleysoftware.com>

commit 547039ec502076e60034eeb79611df3433a99b7d upstream.

uart_get_baud_rate() will return baud == 0 if the max rate is set
to the "magic" 38400 rate and the SPD_* flags are also specified.
On the first iteration, if the current baud rate is higher than the
max, the baud rate is clamped at the max (which in the degenerate
case is 38400). On the second iteration, the now-"magic" 38400 baud
rate selects the possibly higher alternate baud rate indicated by
the SPD_* flag. Since only two loop iterations are performed, the
loop is exited, a kernel WARNING is generated and a baud rate of
0 is returned.

Reproducible with:
 setserial /dev/ttyS0 spd_hi base_baud 38400

Only perform the "magic" 38400 -> SPD_* baud transform on the first
loop iteration, which prevents the degenerate case from recognizing
the clamped baud rate as the "magic" 38400 value.

Reported-by: Robert Święcki <robert at swiecki.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter at hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
index b5180c1..6015b6c 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ uart_get_baud_rate(struct uart_port *port, struct ktermios *termios,
 		 * The spd_hi, spd_vhi, spd_shi, spd_warp kludge...
 		 * Die! Die! Die!
 		 */
-		if (baud == 38400)
+		if (try == 0 && baud == 38400)
 			baud = altbaud;
 
 		/*
-- 
1.9.1





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