Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 00:18:19 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl
Subject: drivers/char/specialix.c: broken baud conversion
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Hi Alan,

your commit commit 67cc0161ecc9ebee6eba4af6cbfdba028090b1b9
"specialix - remove private speed decoding" converted the variable baud 
from an index in the array baud_table[] to containing the baud value 
itself.

Unfortunately, it contains at least two bugs:


The Coverity checker spotted that the following line was forgotten:

           baud = (baud_table[baud] + 5) / 10;   /* Estimated CPS */

BTW: After the trivial fix, baud_table[] could be removed.


While looking at the patch, I noticed it contains another bug that is 
not that easy to fix:

-       if (baud == 15) {
+       if (baud == 38400) {
                if ((port->flags & ASYNC_SPD_MASK) == ASYNC_SPD_HI)
                        baud ++;
                if ((port->flags & ASYNC_SPD_MASK) == ASYNC_SPD_VHI)
                        baud += 2;
        }

Increasing the index for baud_table[] by 1 or 2 is quite different from 
increasing baud by 1 or 2.


cu
Adrian

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