lib/math/rational.c: fix divide by zero
authorTrent Piepho <tpiepho@gmail.com>
Thu, 1 Jul 2021 01:55:49 +0000 (18:55 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 1 Jul 2021 18:06:05 +0000 (11:06 -0700)
commit65a0d3c14685663ba111038a35db70f559e39336
treed58a648f72efdd89e6a4dd95faaaef7b37d83acb
parentcc72181a65990193f54284417efa01d4580014e6
lib/math/rational.c: fix divide by zero

If the input is out of the range of the allowed values, either larger than
the largest value or closer to zero than the smallest non-zero allowed
value, then a division by zero would occur.

In the case of input too large, the division by zero will occur on the
first iteration.  The best result (largest allowed value) will be found by
always choosing the semi-convergent and excluding the denominator based
limit when finding it.

In the case of the input too small, the division by zero will occur on the
second iteration.  The numerator based semi-convergent should not be
calculated to avoid the division by zero.  But the semi-convergent vs
previous convergent test is still needed, which effectively chooses
between 0 (the previous convergent) vs the smallest allowed fraction (best
semi-convergent) as the result.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210525144250.214670-1-tpiepho@gmail.com
Fixes: 323dd2c3ed0 ("lib/math/rational.c: fix possible incorrect result from rational fractions helper")
Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yiyuan Guo <yguoaz@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Oskar Schirmer <oskar@scara.com>
Cc: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lib/math/rational.c