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 5.11-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-5.11 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
@@ -701,11 +701,18 @@ 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-5.11/media-mceusb-sanity-check-for-prescaler-value.patch
