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Message-ID: <2c51855b-cd74-5701-d9fc-ad75818e7c28@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2022 23:01:07 +0100
From: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@...il.com>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc: phil@...lpotter.co.uk, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192e: Fix divide fault when calculating
beacon age
On 11/3/22 21:05, Larry Finger wrote:
> When the configuration parameter CONFIG_HZ is less that 100, the compiler
> generates an error as follows:
>
> ../drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c: In function 'rtl819x_translate_scan':
> ../drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c:220:57: warning: division by zero [-Wdiv-by-zero]
> 220 | (jiffies - network->last_scanned) / (HZ / 100));
> | ^
> In file included from ../include/linux/skbuff.h:45,
> from ../include/linux/if_ether.h:19,
> from ../include/linux/etherdevice.h:20,
> from ../drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c:18:
> ../drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c: In function 'rtllib_wx_get_scan':
> ../drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c:261:70: warning: division by zero [-Wdiv-by-zero]
> 261 | (jiffies - network->last_scanned) /
> |
>
> In fact, is HZ is not a multiple of 100, the calculation will be wrong, but it
> will compile correctly.
>
> The fix is to get rid of the (HZ / 100) portion. To decrease any round-off
> errors, the compiler is forced to perform the 100 * jiffies-difference before
> dividing by HX. This patch is only compile tested.
>
> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
> ---
> drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c
> index da2c41c9b92f..7013425102dd 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c
> @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ static inline char *rtl819x_translate_scan(struct rtllib_device *ieee,
> p = custom;
> p += scnprintf(p, MAX_CUSTOM_LEN - (p - custom),
> " Last beacon: %lums ago",
> - (jiffies - network->last_scanned) / (HZ / 100));
> + (100 *(jiffies - network->last_scanned)) / HZ);
> iwe.u.data.length = p - custom;
> if (iwe.u.data.length)
> start = iwe_stream_add_point_rsl(info, start, stop,
> @@ -258,8 +258,8 @@ int rtllib_wx_get_scan(struct rtllib_device *ieee,
> escape_essid(network->ssid,
> network->ssid_len),
> network->bssid,
> - (jiffies - network->last_scanned) /
> - (HZ / 100));
> + (100 * (jiffies - network->last_scanned)) /
> + HZ);
> }
>
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ieee->lock, flags);
Line length of the description is to long.
Tested-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@...il.com>
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