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From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>,
	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] iio:gyro: adis16136: divide by zero in write_frequency()
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:40:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50B5092E.7060103@metafoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121127072452.GA8239@elgon.mountain>

On 11/27/2012 08:24 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> It's slightly cleaner to use kstrtouint() because we pass unsigned ints
> to adis16136_set_freq().  On 64 bit systems, if the user passed LONG_MIN
> then it we would get past the test against zero but crash in
> adis16136_set_freq() because we truncate the high bits away.
> 
> 

Thanks,

Acked-By: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/gyro/adis16136.c b/drivers/iio/gyro/adis16136.c
> index 05486df..b4ee339 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/gyro/adis16136.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/gyro/adis16136.c
> @@ -203,10 +203,10 @@ static ssize_t adis16136_write_frequency(struct device *dev,
>  {
>  	struct iio_dev *indio_dev = dev_to_iio_dev(dev);
>  	struct adis16136 *adis16136 = iio_priv(indio_dev);
> -	long val;
> +	unsigned int val;
>  	int ret;
>  
> -	ret = kstrtol(buf, 10, &val);
> +	ret = kstrtouint(buf, 10, &val);
>  	if (ret)
>  		return ret;
>  
> --
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-27 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-27  7:24 [patch] iio:gyro: adis16136: divide by zero in write_frequency() Dan Carpenter
2012-11-27 18:40 ` Lars-Peter Clausen [this message]
2012-11-30 13:13   ` Jonathan Cameron

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