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* [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] char: serial: check divider value against baud base
@ 2016-10-12  5:58 P J P
  2016-10-12  8:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: P J P @ 2016-10-12  5:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Qemu Developers
  Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin, Paolo Bonzini, Huawei PSIRT, Prasad J Pandit

From: Prasad J Pandit <pjp@fedoraproject.org>

16550A UART device uses an oscillator to generate frequencies
(baud base), which decide communication speed. This speed could
be changed by dividing it by a divider. If the divider is
greater than the baud base, speed is set to zero, leading to a
divide by zero error. Add check to avoid it.

Reported-by: Huawei PSIRT <psirt@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Prasad J Pandit <pjp@fedoraproject.org>
---
 hw/char/serial.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Update per
  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg02400.html

diff --git a/hw/char/serial.c b/hw/char/serial.c
index 3442f47..eec72b7 100644
--- a/hw/char/serial.c
+++ b/hw/char/serial.c
@@ -153,8 +153,9 @@ static void serial_update_parameters(SerialState *s)
     int speed, parity, data_bits, stop_bits, frame_size;
     QEMUSerialSetParams ssp;
 
-    if (s->divider == 0)
+    if (s->divider == 0 || s->divider > s->baudbase) {
         return;
+    }
 
     /* Start bit. */
     frame_size = 1;
-- 
2.5.5

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