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authorTrent Piepho <tpiepho@gmail.com>2021-07-01 03:55:49 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-07-01 20:06:05 +0200
commit65a0d3c14685663ba111038a35db70f559e39336 (patch)
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parentseq_file: drop unused *_escape_mem_ascii() (diff)
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lib/math/rational.c: fix divide by zero
If the input is out of the range of the allowed values, either larger than the largest value or closer to zero than the smallest non-zero allowed value, then a division by zero would occur. In the case of input too large, the division by zero will occur on the first iteration. The best result (largest allowed value) will be found by always choosing the semi-convergent and excluding the denominator based limit when finding it. In the case of the input too small, the division by zero will occur on the second iteration. The numerator based semi-convergent should not be calculated to avoid the division by zero. But the semi-convergent vs previous convergent test is still needed, which effectively chooses between 0 (the previous convergent) vs the smallest allowed fraction (best semi-convergent) as the result. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210525144250.214670-1-tpiepho@gmail.com Fixes: 323dd2c3ed0 ("lib/math/rational.c: fix possible incorrect result from rational fractions helper") Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@gmail.com> Reported-by: Yiyuan Guo <yguoaz@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Oskar Schirmer <oskar@scara.com> Cc: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/math')
-rw-r--r--lib/math/rational.c16
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/math/rational.c b/lib/math/rational.c
index 9781d521963d..c0ab51d8fbb9 100644
--- a/lib/math/rational.c
+++ b/lib/math/rational.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/minmax.h>
+#include <linux/limits.h>
/*
* calculate best rational approximation for a given fraction
@@ -78,13 +79,18 @@ void rational_best_approximation(
* found below as 't'.
*/
if ((n2 > max_numerator) || (d2 > max_denominator)) {
- unsigned long t = min((max_numerator - n0) / n1,
- (max_denominator - d0) / d1);
+ unsigned long t = ULONG_MAX;
- /* This tests if the semi-convergent is closer
- * than the previous convergent.
+ if (d1)
+ t = (max_denominator - d0) / d1;
+ if (n1)
+ t = min(t, (max_numerator - n0) / n1);
+
+ /* This tests if the semi-convergent is closer than the previous
+ * convergent. If d1 is zero there is no previous convergent as this
+ * is the 1st iteration, so always choose the semi-convergent.
*/
- if (2u * t > a || (2u * t == a && d0 * dp > d1 * d)) {
+ if (!d1 || 2u * t > a || (2u * t == a && d0 * dp > d1 * d)) {
n1 = n0 + t * n1;
d1 = d0 + t * d1;
}