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: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/gcd.c b/lib/gcd.c
index f879033..433d89b 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;