[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "serial: Fix divide-by-zero fault in uart_get_divisor()" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Nov 25 20:35:26 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    serial: Fix divide-by-zero fault in uart_get_divisor()

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt12.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Peter Hurley <peter at hurleysoftware.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 13:46:38 -0400
Subject: serial: Fix divide-by-zero fault in uart_get_divisor()
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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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