Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250_dw: Avoid overflow in dw8250_set_termios

[Ed Blake]

On 13/01/18 11:59, Nuno GonÃalves wrote:
> Dear Ed,
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tested-by: Nuno Goncalves <nunojpg@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I just would like to report a aditional issue I find, which I am not
> sure if it is intend behaviour or not. If I set bauds 1152000,
> 1500000, 2000000, 2500000, 3000000, I always get a actually set baud
> of 1500000, because it appears to be the closest baud by my hardware,
> but if I set 3500000, then the port gets disabled.
>
> This is because up to 3000000 the closest integer divider is 1, but
> then it becomes 0, which is invalid.
>
> If we still should return the closest baud, then we must return a
> minimum of 1, and never 0, at uart_get_divisor, or
> serial8250_get_divisor.
>
> Thanks,
> Nuno

Yes, returning a divisor of zero doesn't sound very sensible. Care to
submit a patch?

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Ed