Re: [PATCH] i2c: aspeed: fixed invalid clock parameters for very large divisors

[Jae Hyun Yoo]

Hi Brendan,

nit:
Title in imperative mood. I'd put 'fix' instead of 'fixed'.

On 9/20/2018 4:28 PM, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> The function that computes clock parameters from divisors did not
> respect the maximum size of the bitfields that the parameters were
> written to. This fixes the bug.
>
> This bug can be reproduced with (and this fix verified with) the test
> at: https://kunit-review.googlesource.com/c/linux/+/1035/
>
> Discovered-by-KUnit: https://kunit-review.googlesource.com/c/linux/+/1035/
> Signed-off-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx>

[....]

> +	if (base_clk > ASPEED_I2CD_TIME_BASE_DIVISOR_MASK) {
> +		base_clk = ASPEED_I2CD_TIME_BASE_DIVISOR_MASK;
> +		clk_low = clk_high_low_mask;
> +		clk_high = clk_high_low_mask;

Yes, it fixes these parameters to the lowest bus speed setting with the
maximum base clock divisor value and the maximum SCL timing cycle value
when a low bus-frequency is requested which exceeds the range of this
H/W supports. This exceptional case handling is needed to prevent making
invalid settings on it. Nice fix!

One minor issue is, 'base_clk_divisor' instead of 'base_clk' could avoid
misreading on this code.

With that, it looks nice to me. Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Jae Hyun Yoo <jae.hyun.yoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>