This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
backlight: pwm_bl: Fix overflow condition
to the 4.9-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:
backlight-pwm_bl-fix-overflow-condition.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Thu Dec 21 09:02:40 CET 2017
From: Derek Basehore <dbasehore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:34:34 -0700
Subject: backlight: pwm_bl: Fix overflow condition
From: Derek Basehore <dbasehore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 5d0c49acebc9488e37db95f1d4a55644e545ffe7 ]
This fixes an overflow condition that can happen with high max
brightness and period values in compute_duty_cycle. This fixes it by
using a 64 bit variable for computing the duty cycle.
Signed-off-by: Derek Basehore <dbasehore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c
@@ -79,14 +79,17 @@ static void pwm_backlight_power_off(stru
static int compute_duty_cycle(struct pwm_bl_data *pb, int brightness)
{
unsigned int lth = pb->lth_brightness;
- int duty_cycle;
+ u64 duty_cycle;
if (pb->levels)
duty_cycle = pb->levels[brightness];
else
duty_cycle = brightness;
- return (duty_cycle * (pb->period - lth) / pb->scale) + lth;
+ duty_cycle *= pb->period - lth;
+ do_div(duty_cycle, pb->scale);
+
+ return duty_cycle + lth;
}
static int pwm_backlight_update_status(struct backlight_device *bl)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dbasehore@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/backlight-pwm_bl-fix-overflow-condition.patch