staging: comedi: usbduxfast: usbduxfast_ai_cmdtest rounding error
authorBernd Porr <mail@berndporr.me.uk>
Mon, 18 Nov 2019 23:07:59 +0000 (23:07 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 1 Dec 2019 08:14:35 +0000 (09:14 +0100)
commit8199730f48ec30c721a8a1bf028381241e5f7476
tree6088e3a818467d430f6627b6e2ce8f5f00fa7f38
parent8196fd1b52049c372402bb0868da4239509087e5
staging: comedi: usbduxfast: usbduxfast_ai_cmdtest rounding error

commit 5618332e5b955b4bff06d0b88146b971c8dd7b32 upstream.

The userspace comedilib function 'get_cmd_generic_timed' fills
the cmd structure with an informed guess and then calls the
function 'usbduxfast_ai_cmdtest' in this driver repeatedly while
'usbduxfast_ai_cmdtest' is modifying the cmd struct until it
no longer changes. However, because of rounding errors this never
converged because 'steps = (cmd->convert_arg * 30) / 1000' and then
back to 'cmd->convert_arg = (steps * 1000) / 30' won't be the same
because of rounding errors. 'Steps' should only be converted back to
the 'convert_arg' if 'steps' has actually been modified. In addition
the case of steps being 0 wasn't checked which is also now done.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Porr <mail@berndporr.me.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.4+
Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191118230759.1727-1-mail@berndporr.me.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/usbduxfast.c