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authorMarcelo Roberto Jimenez <mroberto@cpti.cetuc.puc-rio.br>2011-02-02 16:04:02 -0200
committerJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>2011-02-03 12:59:50 -0800
commit83a06bf50bdf2074b9404951ff60e142d159d93b (patch)
treeebb70cdc221d06529fd327e284f1b9191939f6aa /drivers/rtc/interface.c
parent9118626a30f8a3f58674623bebd3c34961e558af (diff)
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RTC: Prevents a division by zero in kernel code.
This patch prevents a user space program from calling the RTC_IRQP_SET ioctl with a negative value of frequency. Also, if this call is make with a zero value of frequency, there would be a division by zero in the kernel code. [jstultz: Also initialize irq_freq to 1 to catch other divbyzero issues] CC: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Roberto Jimenez <mroberto@cpti.cetuc.puc-rio.br> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/rtc/interface.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/rtc/interface.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/interface.c b/drivers/rtc/interface.c
index 925006d33109..a0c01967244d 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/interface.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/interface.c
@@ -464,6 +464,9 @@ int rtc_irq_set_freq(struct rtc_device *rtc, struct rtc_task *task, int freq)
int err = 0;
unsigned long flags;
+ if (freq <= 0)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
spin_lock_irqsave(&rtc->irq_task_lock, flags);
if (rtc->irq_task != NULL && task == NULL)
err = -EBUSY;