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| author | Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org> | 2012-10-04 17:13:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-10-13 05:50:19 +0900 |
| commit | 5761d00bf5760f044224fd7a7500942ff7ba973c (patch) | |
| tree | e7aae2fa0267e858fa0b327f4aad7da6831ca015 /lib | |
| parent | fdb540f319a7a93ada40636c6313bb8e10438ca7 (diff) | |
lib/gcd.c: prevent possible div by 0
commit e96875677fb2b7cb739c5d7769824dff7260d31d upstream.
Account for all properties when a and/or b are 0:
gcd(0, 0) = 0
gcd(a, 0) = a
gcd(0, b) = b
Fixes no known problems in current kernels.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/gcd.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/gcd.c b/lib/gcd.c index cce4f3cd14b3..3657f129d7b8 100644 --- a/lib/gcd.c +++ b/lib/gcd.c @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ unsigned long gcd(unsigned long a, unsigned long b) if (a < b) swap(a, b); + + if (!b) + return a; while ((r = a % b) != 0) { a = b; b = r; |