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Revision 16b71fdf97599f1b1b7f38418ee9922d9f117396 authored by Samuel CUELLA on 10 March 2009, 19:56:00 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 10 March 2009, 22:55:12 UTC
Prevent the kernel from being crashed by a divide-by-zero operation when
supplied an incorrectly filled 'struct fb_var_screeninfo' from userland.

Previously i810_main.c:1005 (i810_check_params) was using the global
'yres' symbol previously defined at i810_main.c:145 as a module parameter
value holder (i810_main.c:2174).  If i810fb is compiled-in or if this
param doesn't get a default value, this direct usage leads to a
divide-by-zero at i810_main.c:1005 (i810_check_params).  The patch simply
replace the 'yres' global, perhaps undefined symbol usage by a given
parameter structure lookup.

This problem occurs with directfb, mplayer -vo fbdev, SDL library.
It was also reported ( but non solved ) at:

	http://mail.directfb.org/pipermail/directfb-dev/2008-March/004050.html

Signed-off-by: Samuel CUELLA <samuel.cuella@supinfo.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tip revision: 53d5fc89d66a778577295020dc57bb3ccec84354 authored by Linus Torvalds on 01 October 2021, 21:45:23 UTC
Merge tag 's390-5.15-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux
Tip revision: 53d5fc8
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