Re: 2.5.7 pre-UDMA PIIX bug

Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:09:49 +0100


On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 03:00:24PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> > Vojtech's version of drivers/ide/piix.c which went into 2.5.7
> > oopses with a divide-by-zero exception when initialising older
> > pre-UDMA chips, like in the following 430HX chipset:
> >
> > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 430HX - 82439HX TXC [Triton II] (rev 03)
> > 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II] (rev 01)
> > 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II]
> > (PCI IDs 8086:1250, 8086:7000, and 8086:7010, respectively)
> >
> > The error occurs in piix.c:piix_set_drive() line 334, shown below.
> > The 82371SB has PIIX_UDMA_NONE in the piix_ide_chips[] array,
> > so piix_config->flags & PIIX_UDMA is zero, which makes "umul" zero,
> > which causes the divide-by-zero on line 334.
> >
> > 317 static int piix_set_drive(ide_drive_t *drive, unsigned char speed)
> > 318 {
> > 319 ide_drive_t *peer = HWIF(drive)->drives + (~drive->dn & 1);
> > 320 struct ata_timing t, p;
> > 321 int err, T, UT, umul;
> > 322
> > 323 if (speed != XFER_PIO_SLOW && speed != drive->current_speed)
> > 324 if ((err = ide_config_drive_speed(drive, speed)))
> > 325 return err;
> > 326
> > 327 umul = min((speed > XFER_UDMA_4) ? 4 : ((speed > XFER_UDMA_2) ? 2 : 1),
> > 328 piix_config->flags & PIIX_UDMA);
> > 329
> > 330 if (piix_config->flags & PIIX_VICTORY)
> > 331 umul = 2;
> > 332
> > 333 T = 1000000000 / piix_clock;
> > 334 UT = T / umul;
>
> I think that it should be just sufficient to add the
> following test just in front of the offending calculartion.
>
> if (umul == 0)
> ++umul;
>
> Vojtech is this right?

Probably yes, the value of UT isn't used in that case, because we will
never try to set an UDMA mode on such a chipset. I've sent you a
slightly different patch, though.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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