hwmon: (gpio-fan) Prevent overflow problem when writing large limits
authorAxel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>
Sat, 2 Aug 2014 05:36:38 +0000 (13:36 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 5 Sep 2014 23:34:14 +0000 (16:34 -0700)
commit 2565fb05d1e9fc0831f7b1c083bcfcb1cba1f020 upstream.

On platforms with sizeof(int) < sizeof(unsigned long), writing a rpm value
larger than MAXINT will result in unpredictable limit values written to the
chip. Avoid auto-conversion from unsigned long to int to fix the problem.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/hwmon/gpio-fan.c

index 73181be..814f7ee 100644 (file)
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ static int get_fan_speed_index(struct gpio_fan_data *fan_data)
        return -ENODEV;
 }
 
-static int rpm_to_speed_index(struct gpio_fan_data *fan_data, int rpm)
+static int rpm_to_speed_index(struct gpio_fan_data *fan_data, unsigned long rpm)
 {
        struct gpio_fan_speed *speed = fan_data->speed;
        int i;