[PATCH] fbdev: Fix potential divide by zero
Alex Guo
alexguo1023 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 14 05:29:42 UTC 2025
Variable var->pixclock can be set by user. In case it equals to
zero, divide by zero would occur in acornfb_validate_timing.
Similar crashes have happened in other fbdev drivers. We fix this
by checking whether 'pixclock' is zero.
Similar commit: commit 16844e58704 ("video: fbdev: tridentfb:
Error out if 'pixclock' equals zero")
Signed-off-by: Alex Guo <alexguo1023 at gmail.com>
---
drivers/video/fbdev/acornfb.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/acornfb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/acornfb.c
index f0600f6ca254..2dc0e64137e5 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/acornfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/acornfb.c
@@ -421,6 +421,8 @@ acornfb_validate_timing(struct fb_var_screeninfo *var,
* No need to do long long divisions or anything
* like that if you factor it correctly
*/
+ if (!var->pixclock)
+ return -EINVAL;
hs = 1953125000 / var->pixclock;
hs = hs * 512 /
(var->xres + var->left_margin + var->right_margin + var->hsync_len);
--
2.34.1
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