[PATCH] video: fbdev: fix setting of pixclock because a pass-by-value error
From: Colin King <hidden>
Date: 2020-07-23 17:02:37
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Subsystem:
framebuffer layer, the rest · Maintainers:
Helge Deller, Linus Torvalds
From: Colin Ian King <redacted>
The pixclock is being set locally because it is being passed as a
pass-by-value argument rather than pass-by-reference, so the computed
pixclock is never being set in var->pixclock. Fix this by passing
by reference.
[This dates back to 2002, I found the offending commit from the git
history git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git ]
Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Fixes: 115f4504a64a ("Removed currcon and other console related code. Very little is now left.")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <redacted>
---
drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c | 14 +++++++-------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c
index a20eeb8308ff..52f273af6cae 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ static void vga16fb_update_fix(struct fb_info *info) } static void vga16fb_clock_chip(struct vga16fb_par *par, - unsigned int pixclock, + unsigned int *pixclock, const struct fb_info *info, int mul, int div) {
@@ -259,14 +259,14 @@ static void vga16fb_clock_chip(struct vga16fb_par *par, { 0 /* bad */, 0x00, 0x00}}; int err; - pixclock = (pixclock * mul) / div; + *pixclock = (*pixclock * mul) / div; best = vgaclocks; - err = pixclock - best->pixclock; + err = *pixclock - best->pixclock; if (err < 0) err = -err; for (ptr = vgaclocks + 1; ptr->pixclock; ptr++) { int tmp; - tmp = pixclock - ptr->pixclock; + tmp = *pixclock - ptr->pixclock; if (tmp < 0) tmp = -tmp; if (tmp < err) { err = tmp;
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ static void vga16fb_clock_chip(struct vga16fb_par *par, } par->misc |= best->misc; par->clkdiv = best->seq_clock_mode; - pixclock = (best->pixclock * div) / mul; + *pixclock = (best->pixclock * div) / mul; } #define FAIL(X) return -EINVAL
@@ -497,10 +497,10 @@ static int vga16fb_check_var(struct fb_var_screeninfo *var, if (mode & MODE_8BPP) /* pixel clock = vga clock / 2 */ - vga16fb_clock_chip(par, var->pixclock, info, 1, 2); + vga16fb_clock_chip(par, &var->pixclock, info, 1, 2); else /* pixel clock = vga clock */ - vga16fb_clock_chip(par, var->pixclock, info, 1, 1); + vga16fb_clock_chip(par, &var->pixclock, info, 1, 1); var->red.offset = var->green.offset = var->blue.offset = var->transp.offset = 0;
--
2.27.0