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.And we also check the the value of bitrate in case of bad setting of it. Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyu...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Firo Yang <fir...@gmail.com> --- v0->v1: Reviewed by walter harms <wha...@bfs.de>. Return ENODEV instead of EPERM if !netif_running(dev) Check if s->par.bitrate > 0. drivers/net/hamradio/hdlcdrv.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/hdlcdrv.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/hdlcdrv.c index 8c3633c..b0f417f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/hamradio/hdlcdrv.c +++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/hdlcdrv.c @@ -576,6 +576,10 @@ static int hdlcdrv_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd) case HDLCDRVCTL_CALIBRATE: if(!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) return -EPERM; + if (!netif_running(dev)) + return -ENODEV; + if (!(s->par.bitrate > 0)) + return -EINVAL; if (bi.data.calibrate > INT_MAX / s->par.bitrate) return -EINVAL; s->hdlctx.calibrate = bi.data.calibrate * s->par.bitrate / 16; -- 2.7.4