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video: fbdev: vga16fb: fix setting of pixclock because a pass-by-value error

The pixclock is being set locally because it is being passed as a
pass-by-value argument rather than pass-by-reference, so the computed
pixclock is never being set in var->pixclock. Fix this by passing
by reference.

[This dates back to 2002, I found the offending commit from the git
history git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git ]

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
[b.zolnierkie: minor patch summary fixup]
[b.zolnierkie: removed "Fixes:" tag (not in upstream tree)]
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200723170227.996229-1-colin.king@canonical.com

authored by

Colin Ian King and committed by
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
c72fab81 bcee1609

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drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c
··· 243 243 } 244 244 245 245 static void vga16fb_clock_chip(struct vga16fb_par *par, 246 - unsigned int pixclock, 246 + unsigned int *pixclock, 247 247 const struct fb_info *info, 248 248 int mul, int div) 249 249 { ··· 259 259 { 0 /* bad */, 0x00, 0x00}}; 260 260 int err; 261 261 262 - pixclock = (pixclock * mul) / div; 262 + *pixclock = (*pixclock * mul) / div; 263 263 best = vgaclocks; 264 - err = pixclock - best->pixclock; 264 + err = *pixclock - best->pixclock; 265 265 if (err < 0) err = -err; 266 266 for (ptr = vgaclocks + 1; ptr->pixclock; ptr++) { 267 267 int tmp; 268 268 269 - tmp = pixclock - ptr->pixclock; 269 + tmp = *pixclock - ptr->pixclock; 270 270 if (tmp < 0) tmp = -tmp; 271 271 if (tmp < err) { 272 272 err = tmp; ··· 275 275 } 276 276 par->misc |= best->misc; 277 277 par->clkdiv = best->seq_clock_mode; 278 - pixclock = (best->pixclock * div) / mul; 278 + *pixclock = (best->pixclock * div) / mul; 279 279 } 280 280 281 281 #define FAIL(X) return -EINVAL ··· 497 497 498 498 if (mode & MODE_8BPP) 499 499 /* pixel clock == vga clock / 2 */ 500 - vga16fb_clock_chip(par, var->pixclock, info, 1, 2); 500 + vga16fb_clock_chip(par, &var->pixclock, info, 1, 2); 501 501 else 502 502 /* pixel clock == vga clock */ 503 - vga16fb_clock_chip(par, var->pixclock, info, 1, 1); 503 + vga16fb_clock_chip(par, &var->pixclock, info, 1, 1); 504 504 505 505 var->red.offset = var->green.offset = var->blue.offset = 506 506 var->transp.offset = 0;