The divisor s->par.bitrate will always be 0 until initialized by ndo_open() and hdlcdrv_open().
In order to fix this divide zero error, check whether the netdevice was opened by ndo_open() before performing divide. Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyu...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Firo Yang <fir...@gmail.com> --- drivers/net/hamradio/hdlcdrv.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/hdlcdrv.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/hdlcdrv.c index 8c3633c..3c783fd 100644 --- a/drivers/net/hamradio/hdlcdrv.c +++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/hdlcdrv.c @@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ static int hdlcdrv_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd) break; case HDLCDRVCTL_CALIBRATE: - if(!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO) || !netif_running(dev)) return -EPERM; if (bi.data.calibrate > INT_MAX / s->par.bitrate) return -EINVAL; -- 2.9.4