[PATCH 2/2] serial: sifive: avoid division by zero in the clock notifier
From: Sebastian Alba Vives
Date: Sat Oct 17 2026 - 03:46:09 EST
From: Sebastian Alba <sebasjosue84@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
sifive_serial_probe() registers the clock rate-change notifier before
it initialises the two fields that notifier divides by. ssp comes from
devm_kzalloc(), so between clk_notifier_register() and the assignments
a few lines below, both ssp->baud_rate and ssp->port.uartclk are zero.
A rate change taken in that window reaches:
PRE_RATE_CHANGE: udelay(DIV_ROUND_UP(12 * 1000 * 1000, ssp->baud_rate))
POST_RATE_CHANGE: __ssp_update_div() ->
DIV_ROUND_UP(ssp->port.uartclk, ssp->baud_rate) - 1
On RISC-V an integer division by zero does not trap; the ISA defines the
result as all bits set. DIV_ROUND_UP() therefore yields ULONG_MAX and
udelay() busy-waits essentially forever, hanging the CPU, rather than
producing a clean oops. The POST_RATE_CHANGE path additionally programs
a bogus divisor into the hardware.
On the FU740 the UART clock is derived from the CPU clock through a
synchronous divide-by-two, as the notifier's own comment describes, so
any CPU rate change during probe can hit this.
Initialise uartclk and baud_rate before registering the notifier, and
bail out early if the notifier is ever called with no baud rate set.
Fixes: 45c054d0815b ("tty: serial: add driver for the SiFive UART")
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Alba <sebasjosue84@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/sifive.c | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sifive.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sifive.c
index 4a445d285..cd2925b6a 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/sifive.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sifive.c
@@ -604,6 +604,9 @@ static int sifive_serial_clk_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb,
struct clk_notifier_data *cnd = data;
struct sifive_serial_port *ssp = notifier_to_sifive_serial_port(nb);
+ if (!ssp->baud_rate)
+ return NOTIFY_OK;
+
if (event == PRE_RATE_CHANGE) {
/*
* The TX watermark is always set to 1 by this driver, which
@@ -1022,6 +1025,11 @@ static int sifive_serial_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
ssp->clk = clk;
ssp->clk_notifier.notifier_call = sifive_serial_clk_notifier;
+ /* Set up clock divider before the notifier can observe this port */
+ ssp->port.uartclk = clk_get_rate(ssp->clk);
+ ssp->baud_rate = SIFIVE_DEFAULT_BAUD_RATE;
+ __ssp_update_div(ssp);
+
r = clk_notifier_register(ssp->clk, &ssp->clk_notifier);
if (r) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "could not register clock notifier: %d\n",
@@ -1029,11 +1037,6 @@ static int sifive_serial_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
goto probe_out1;
}
- /* Set up clock divider */
- ssp->port.uartclk = clk_get_rate(ssp->clk);
- ssp->baud_rate = SIFIVE_DEFAULT_BAUD_RATE;
- __ssp_update_div(ssp);
-
platform_set_drvdata(pdev, ssp);
/* Enable transmits and set the watermark level to 1 */
--
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