[PATCH] clk: divider: Fix table round up function

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Thu May 15 06:28:46 PDT 2014


Hi Mike,

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Maxime COQUELIN <maxime.coquelin at st.com> wrote:
> Commit 1d9fe6b97 ("clk: divider: Fix best div calculation for power-of-two and
> table dividers") introduces a regression in its _table_round_up function.
>
> When the divider passed to this function is greater than the max divider
> available in the table, this function returns table's max divider.
> Problem is that it causes an infinite loop in clk_divider_bestdiv() because
> _next_div() will never return a value greater than maxdiv.
>
> Instead of returning table's max divider, this patch returns INT_MAX.
>
> Reported-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com>
> Reported-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at freescale.com>
> Tested-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com>
> Cc: Mike Turquette <mike.turquette at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at st.com>

Any comments on this one? It does fix a regression.



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