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* [PATCH] Fix cyclades async driver timeout miscalculation
@ 2004-03-27  5:39 Marcelo Tosatti
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From: Marcelo Tosatti @ 2004-03-27  5:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: torvalds, akpm; +Cc: linux-kernel

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Hi, 

The attached patch fixes a problem where cy_wait_until_sent()
miscalculates (calculate -1 on a unsigned long) the "char_time" 
parameter passed to schedule_timeout(). 

Fix that by making it a signed long, and checking for 
negative value.

Please apply.

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--- linux-2.6.4/drivers/char/cyclades.c.orig	2004-03-27 02:30:40.050030160 -0300
+++ linux-2.6.4/drivers/char/cyclades.c	2004-03-27 02:30:44.878296152 -0300
@@ -2679,7 +2679,8 @@ cy_wait_until_sent(struct tty_struct *tt
   struct cyclades_port * info = (struct cyclades_port *)tty->driver_data;
   unsigned char *base_addr;
   int card,chip,channel,index;
-  unsigned long orig_jiffies, char_time;
+  unsigned long orig_jiffies;
+  signed long char_time;
 	
     if (serial_paranoia_check(info, tty->name, "cy_wait_until_sent"))
 	return;
@@ -2699,7 +2700,7 @@ cy_wait_until_sent(struct tty_struct *tt
      */
     char_time = (info->timeout - HZ/50) / info->xmit_fifo_size;
     char_time = char_time / 5;
-    if (char_time == 0)
+    if (char_time <= 0)
 	char_time = 1;
     if (timeout < 0)
 	timeout = 0;

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