Re: [PATCH] iio: humidity: hts221: fix division by zero in calibration data parsing

From: Joshua Crofts

Date: Tue Aug 25 2026 - 05:40:20 EST


On Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:21:10 +0800
Yang Zi <2959243019@xxxxxx> wrote:

> hts221_parse_temp_caldata() and hts221_parse_rh_caldata() compute the
> sensor slope as ((cal_y1 - cal_y0) * 8000) / (cal_x1 - cal_x0). If the
> device reports cal_x1 == cal_x0 the division causes a divide-by-zero
> error.
>
> Return -EINVAL when cal_x1 == cal_x0 in both functions before performing
> the division.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Zi <2959243019@xxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/humidity/hts221_core.c b/drivers/iio/humidity/hts221_core.c
> index bfeb0a60d3af..7d1f04951d8b 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/humidity/hts221_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/humidity/hts221_core.c
> @@ -288,6 +288,9 @@ static int hts221_parse_temp_caldata(struct hts221_hw *hw)
>          return err;
>      cal_x1 = le16_to_cpu(val);
>  
> +    if (cal_x1 == cal_x0)
> +        return -EINVAL;
> +
>      slope = &hw->sensors[HTS221_SENSOR_T].slope;
>      b_gen = &hw->sensors[HTS221_SENSOR_T].b_gen;
>  
> @@ -327,6 +330,9 @@ static int hts221_parse_rh_caldata(struct hts221_hw *hw)
>          return err;
>      cal_x1 = le16_to_cpu(val);
>  
> +    if (cal_x1 == cal_x0)
> +        return -EINVAL;
> +
>      slope = &hw->sensors[HTS221_SENSOR_H].slope;
>      b_gen = &hw->sensors[HTS221_SENSOR_H].b_gen;
>  
>
>

This definitely needs a Fixes: tag, otherwise LGTM.

Feel free to carry my review tag.

Reviewed-by: Joshua Crofts <joshua.crofts1@xxxxxxxxx>

PS, a bit of process info: I noticed Sashiko (sashiko.dev) failed to apply your
patches. To prevent this from happening in the future, please use the `--base` flag
when running `git format-patch` to specify which commit it should be applied onto.

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Kind regards,
Joshua Crofts