[PATCH v3] pwm: atmel: Fix arithmetic overflows for long periods

From: Karl Mehltretter

Date: Mon Oct 26 2026 - 22:29:43 EST


atmel_pwm_calculate_cprd_and_pres() first multiplies the requested
period by the clock rate in a u64 and only then divides by
NSEC_PER_SEC. The product can overflow even when the quotient and the
resulting hardware configuration are representable.

For example, at 12 MHz a 1600 s period has 19.2 billion clock cycles
and fits with prescaler 3, but the intermediate product exceeds U64_MAX.
It wraps and the driver programs a period of about 62.8 s instead. This
remains broken after changing fls() to fls64(). The duty-cycle
calculation has the same overflow.

Use mul_u64_u64_div_u64() for both conversions and use fls64() when
deriving the prescaler. The multiply/divide result cannot overflow if
the clock rate is at most NSEC_PER_SEC, so hold the clock rate exclusive
and validate it at probe time.

The reverse conversion in atmel_pwm_get_state() can overflow too: it
multiplies CPRD or CDTY by NSEC_PER_SEC and then shifts the u64 by the
prescaler. Convert the scaled clock ticks with the overflow-safe,
round-up helper instead. Explicitly saturate values that cannot be
represented by the u64 nanosecond API, rather than relying on the
architecture-specific helper's quotient-overflow behaviour.

Fixes: a9d887dc1c60 ("pwm: Convert period and duty cycle to u64")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/atnHHaOwTkI78_tc@monoceros
Suggested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@xxxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v3:
- Use mul_u64_u64_div_u64() for the period conversion as suggested by
Uwe, and for the analogous duty-cycle conversion.
- Fix the corresponding overflow in the get_state() conversion and
explicitly saturate results that cannot be represented in nanoseconds.
- Hold the clock rate exclusive and validate the rate bound required by
the arithmetic.
- Rebase onto v7.3-rc7.

Testing:
- Built an ARM zImage with clang 22.1.8 and W=1.
- Passed 14 host boundary tests, 53 oracle-checked SAM9X75 QEMU boots,
and all 20 PWM device-model qtests.
- Passed 89/89 checks on a physical SAM9X75, including overflow cases.
A 69.175-second period measured 69.210 seconds between interrupts; no
kernel errors were found.

drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel.c b/drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel.c
index 86918523d8..db7a14c66a 100644
--- a/drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel.c
+++ b/drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/io.h>
+#include <linux/math64.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/of.h>
#include <linux/platform_device.h>
@@ -183,19 +184,18 @@ static int atmel_pwm_calculate_cprd_and_pres(struct pwm_chip *chip,
unsigned long *cprd, u32 *pres)
{
struct atmel_pwm_chip *atmel_pwm = to_atmel_pwm_chip(chip);
- unsigned long long cycles = state->period;
+ unsigned long long cycles;
int shift;

/* Calculate the period cycles and prescale value */
- cycles *= clkrate;
- do_div(cycles, NSEC_PER_SEC);
+ cycles = mul_u64_u64_div_u64(state->period, clkrate, NSEC_PER_SEC);

/*
* The register for the period length is cfg.period_bits bits wide.
* So for each bit the number of clock cycles is wider divide the input
* clock frequency by two using pres and shift cprd accordingly.
*/
- shift = fls(cycles) - atmel_pwm->data->cfg.period_bits;
+ shift = fls64(cycles) - atmel_pwm->data->cfg.period_bits;

if (shift > PWM_MAX_PRES) {
dev_err(pwmchip_parent(chip), "pres exceeds the maximum value\n");
@@ -218,12 +218,23 @@ static void atmel_pwm_calculate_cdty(const struct pwm_state *state,
{
unsigned long long cycles = state->duty_cycle;

- cycles *= clkrate;
- do_div(cycles, NSEC_PER_SEC);
+ cycles = mul_u64_u64_div_u64(cycles, clkrate, NSEC_PER_SEC);
cycles >>= pres;
+
*cdty = cprd - cycles;
}

+static u64 atmel_pwm_ticks_to_ns(u64 ticks, unsigned long rate)
+{
+ u64 max_ticks;
+
+ max_ticks = mul_u64_u64_div_u64(U64_MAX, rate, NSEC_PER_SEC);
+ if (ticks > max_ticks)
+ return U64_MAX;
+
+ return mul_u64_u64_div_u64_roundup(ticks, NSEC_PER_SEC, rate);
+}
+
static void atmel_pwm_update_cdty(struct pwm_chip *chip, struct pwm_device *pwm,
unsigned long cdty)
{
@@ -352,24 +363,22 @@ static int atmel_pwm_get_state(struct pwm_chip *chip, struct pwm_device *pwm,
if (sr & (1 << pwm->hwpwm)) {
unsigned long rate = clk_get_rate(atmel_pwm->clk);
u32 cdty, cprd, pres;
- u64 tmp;
+ u64 ticks;

pres = cmr & PWM_CMR_CPRE_MSK;

cprd = atmel_pwm_ch_readl(atmel_pwm, pwm->hwpwm,
atmel_pwm->data->regs.period);
- tmp = (u64)cprd * NSEC_PER_SEC;
- tmp <<= pres;
- state->period = DIV64_U64_ROUND_UP(tmp, rate);
+ ticks = (u64)cprd << pres;
+ state->period = atmel_pwm_ticks_to_ns(ticks, rate);

/* Wait for an updated duty_cycle queued in hardware */
atmel_pwm_wait_nonpending(atmel_pwm, pwm->hwpwm);

cdty = atmel_pwm_ch_readl(atmel_pwm, pwm->hwpwm,
atmel_pwm->data->regs.duty);
- tmp = (u64)(cprd - cdty) * NSEC_PER_SEC;
- tmp <<= pres;
- state->duty_cycle = DIV64_U64_ROUND_UP(tmp, rate);
+ ticks = (u64)(cprd - cdty) << pres;
+ state->duty_cycle = atmel_pwm_ticks_to_ns(ticks, rate);

state->enabled = true;
} else {
@@ -487,6 +496,7 @@ static int atmel_pwm_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct atmel_pwm_chip *atmel_pwm;
struct pwm_chip *chip;
+ unsigned long rate;
int ret;

chip = devm_pwmchip_alloc(&pdev->dev, 4, sizeof(*atmel_pwm));
@@ -507,6 +517,16 @@ static int atmel_pwm_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, PTR_ERR(atmel_pwm->clk),
"failed to get prepared PWM clock\n");

+ ret = devm_clk_rate_exclusive_get(&pdev->dev, atmel_pwm->clk);
+ if (ret)
+ return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, ret,
+ "failed to get exclusive PWM clock rate\n");
+
+ rate = clk_get_rate(atmel_pwm->clk);
+ if (!rate || rate > NSEC_PER_SEC)
+ return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, -EINVAL,
+ "invalid PWM clock rate %lu Hz\n", rate);
+
chip->ops = &atmel_pwm_ops;

ret = atmel_pwm_enable_clk_if_on(chip, true);

base-commit: 24a19b953e2a3d0ea5a8c4951a0ab8f32720c907
--
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)