Re: [PATCH] clk: Don't write error code into divider register

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Tue Jul 25 2017 - 20:32:16 EST


On 07/25, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
> From: Alex Frid <afrid@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add a check for error returned by divider value calculation to avoid
> writing error code into hw register.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Frid <afrid@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jon Mayo <jmayo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Fixes: bca9690b9426 ("clk: divider: Make generic for usage elsewhere")

perhaps?

Also, curious how this got triggered? Presumably round_rate would
have failed before a set_rate call with something invalid came
through so that's why nobody has reported anything so far.

> drivers/clk/clk-divider.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk-divider.c b/drivers/clk/clk-divider.c
> index 9bb472c..4ed516c 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/clk-divider.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk-divider.c
> @@ -385,12 +385,14 @@ static int clk_divider_set_rate(struct clk_hw *hw, unsigned long rate,
> unsigned long parent_rate)
> {
> struct clk_divider *divider = to_clk_divider(hw);
> - unsigned int value;
> + int value;
> unsigned long flags = 0;
> u32 val;
>
> value = divider_get_val(rate, parent_rate, divider->table,
> divider->width, divider->flags);
> + if (value < 0)

Perhaps value should be an s32 if we're doing a writel with it
shifted so much. And then, we could declare it as a u32 and test
it with

if ((s32)value < 0)

to see if there was an error. Sort of annoying that we've limited
the available space of divider_get_val() by combining the value
with the error code number space. We may want to not do that in
case people have huge dividers.

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