This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: mceusb: sanity check for prescaler value to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: media-mceusb-sanity-check-for-prescaler-value.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 9dec0f48a75e0dadca498002d25ef4e143e60194 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 14:53:50 +0100 Subject: media: mceusb: sanity check for prescaler value From: Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx> commit 9dec0f48a75e0dadca498002d25ef4e143e60194 upstream. prescaler larger than 8 would mean the carrier is at most 152Hz, which does not make sense for IR carriers. Reported-by: syzbot+6d31bf169a8265204b8d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/rc/mceusb.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/media/rc/mceusb.c +++ b/drivers/media/rc/mceusb.c @@ -630,11 +630,18 @@ static void mceusb_dev_printdata(struct data[0], data[1]); break; case MCE_RSP_EQIRCFS: + if (!data[0] && !data[1]) { + dev_dbg(dev, "%s: no carrier", inout); + break; + } + // prescaler should make sense + if (data[0] > 8) + break; period = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST((1U << data[0] * 2) * (data[1] + 1), 10); if (!period) break; - carrier = (1000 * 1000) / period; + carrier = USEC_PER_SEC / period; dev_dbg(dev, "%s carrier of %u Hz (period %uus)", inout, carrier, period); break; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sean@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/media-mceusb-sanity-check-for-prescaler-value.patch