[PATCH] i2c: stm32f7: truncate clock period instead of rounding it

From: Guillermo Rodríguez

Date: Thu Jun 11 2026 - 06:50:57 EST


stm32f7_i2c_compute_timing() derives the I2C clock source period
(i2cclk) with DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST, which may round it up. When the
period is overestimated, all timings computed from it (SCLDEL,
SDADEL, SCLL, SCLH) come out shorter on the wire than calculated,
and the resulting bus rate can exceed the requested speed, violating
the I2C specification minimums for tLOW and tHIGH.

For example, with a 104.45 MHz clock source (e.g. PCLK1, the
reset-default I2C clock source on STM32MP1), i2cclk is rounded from
9.574 ns up to 10 ns. Requesting a 400 kHz fast mode bus with
72/27 ns rise/fall times and no analog/digital filters then produces
an actual bus rate of 415.6 kHz with tLOW = 1254 ns, violating both
the 400 kHz maximum rate and the 1300 ns tLOW minimum of the
specification.

Truncate the period instead, so that it can only be underestimated.
The error then falls on the safe side: the programmed timings come
out slightly longer than computed and the bus runs marginally below
the target rate (375.3 kHz in the example above) while meeting the
specification.

i2cbus is left rounded-to-closest: it is only used as the target of
the clk_error comparison and is never multiplied into the programmed
timings, so nearest rounding remains accurate there.

Fixes: aeb068c57214 ("i2c: i2c-stm32f7: add driver")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Guillermo Rodríguez <guille.rodriguez@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-stm32f7.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-stm32f7.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-stm32f7.c
index 53d9df70ebe4..6439620d6bed 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-stm32f7.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-stm32f7.c
@@ -464,8 +464,13 @@ static int stm32f7_i2c_compute_timing(struct stm32f7_i2c_dev *i2c_dev,
{
struct stm32f7_i2c_spec *specs;
u32 p_prev = STM32F7_PRESC_MAX;
- u32 i2cclk = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(NSEC_PER_SEC,
- setup->clock_src);
+ /*
+ * Truncate instead of rounding to closest: if the clock period is
+ * overestimated, the computed SCL timings will come out shorter on
+ * the wire, which can push the bus above the target rate and below
+ * the spec's tLOW/tHIGH minimums.
+ */
+ u32 i2cclk = NSEC_PER_SEC / setup->clock_src;
u32 i2cbus = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(NSEC_PER_SEC,
setup->speed_freq);
u32 clk_error_prev = i2cbus;
--
2.25.1