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drm/i915: avoid brightness overflow when doing scale

Some card's max brightness level is pretty large, e.g. on Acer Aspire
4732Z, the max level is 989910. If user space set a large enough level
then the current scale done in intel_panel_set_backlight will cause an
integer overflow and the scaled level will be mistakenly small, leaving
user with an almost black screen. This patch fixes this problem.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
[danvet: Add a comment to explain what's going on.]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Aaron Lu 12 years ago
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1 changed files with 5 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 5 2
      drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c

+ 5 - 2
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c

@@ -497,8 +497,11 @@ void intel_panel_set_backlight(struct drm_device *dev, u32 level, u32 max)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	/* scale to hardware */
-	level = level * freq / max;
+	/* scale to hardware, but be careful to not overflow */
+	if (freq < max)
+		level = level * freq / max;
+	else
+		level = freq / max * level;
 
 	dev_priv->backlight.level = level;
 	if (dev_priv->backlight.device)