RE: [PATCH v3 2/2] clk:mmp: clk-mix.c fix divide-by-zero

[Stephen Boyd]

Quoting Nixiaoming (2019-04-24 08:34:54)
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 7:00 AM Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Quoting nixiaoming (2019-03-30 06:55:42)
> >> The _get_div() function has a branch with a return value of 0
> >> Add a check on the return value of _get_div() to avoid divide-by-zero
> >> 
> >
> >Are you seeing this in practice? Or just trying to avoid a div-by-zero
> >case that you've found from inspection? 
> >
> This potential bug is found by code inspection.
> _get_div() is defined as a static function which is only refered twice 
> in drivers/clk/mmp/clk-mix.c. In both cases the return value of _get_div()
>  is used as divider without any check.
>  If _get_div() never returns 0, then the branch returning 0 is dead code,
> or the return value should be check to avoid dividing by zero error. 
> 

Ok. If it's found by code inspection then I'd rather wait until someone
can confirm what the behavior should be when _get_div() returns 0. Is it
an error case that never happens or does the hardware support 0 as a
divider value meaning "bypass"? I'd like to understand that before
patching up a potential div-by-zero case and not knowing what it means.