linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/8] dvb-frontends: ves1820: fix potential integer overflow

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Message-ID: <2bc8d41c5ef755fbbe3f3e06c427928b97ed4731.1517268667.git.gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Date:   Mon, 29 Jan 2018 18:31:20 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/8] dvb-frontends: ves1820: fix potential integer overflow

Cast state->config->xin to u64 in order to avoid a potential integer
overflow. This variable is being used in a context that expects an
expression of type u64.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 200604 ("Unintentional integer overflow")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
---
 drivers/media/dvb-frontends/ves1820.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/ves1820.c b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/ves1820.c
index 1d89792..9dbd582 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/ves1820.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/ves1820.c
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ static int ves1820_set_symbolrate(struct ves1820_state *state, u32 symbolrate)
 		NDEC = 3;
 
 	/* yeuch! */
-	fpxin = state->config->xin * 10;
+	fpxin = (u64)state->config->xin * 10;
 	fptmp = fpxin; do_div(fptmp, 123);
 	if (symbolrate < fptmp)
 		SFIL = 1;
-- 
2.7.4