On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 23:26 +0100, Sean Young wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 11:31:42PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > Several of the drivers use carrier as a divisor in their s_tx_carrier()
> > functions.  We should do a sanity check here like we do for
> > LIRC_SET_REC_CARRIER.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>
> > ---
> > v2: Ben Hutchings pointed out that my first patch was not a complete
> >     fix.
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/ir-lirc-codec.c 
> > b/drivers/media/rc/ir-lirc-codec.c
> > index 6ad4a07..28dc0f0 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/rc/ir-lirc-codec.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/rc/ir-lirc-codec.c
> > @@ -211,6 +211,9 @@ static long ir_lirc_ioctl(struct file *filep, unsigned 
> > int cmd,
> >             if (!dev->s_tx_carrier)
> >                     return -EINVAL;
> 
> This should be ENOSYS.
> 
> >  
> > +           if (val <= 0)
> > +                   return -EINVAL;
> > +
> 
> 1) val is unsigned so it would never be less than zero.
> 
> 2) A value of zero means disabling carrier modulation, which is used by 
>    the mceusb driver.
>
> So the check belongs in the individual drivers, as in the original patch.

Oh well, sorry for pointing Dan in the wrong direction.  Is the special
case documented somewhere?

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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