[PATCH 2/5] clocksource: timer-dm: Check prescaler value

Ladislav Michl ladis at linux-mips.org
Mon Jan 8 07:41:04 PST 2018


Invalid value silently disables use of the prescaler.
Use -1 explicitely for that purpose and error out on
invalid value.

Signed-off-by: Ladislav Michl <ladis at linux-mips.org>

diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-dm.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-dm.c
index 43531eecbe54..bde1014308f9 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-dm.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-dm.c
@@ -663,13 +663,13 @@ static int omap_dm_timer_set_prescaler(struct omap_dm_timer *timer,
 {
 	u32 l;
 
-	if (unlikely(!timer))
+	if (unlikely(!timer) || prescaler < -1 || prescaler > 7)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	omap_dm_timer_enable(timer);
 	l = omap_dm_timer_read_reg(timer, OMAP_TIMER_CTRL_REG);
 	l &= ~(OMAP_TIMER_CTRL_PRE | (0x07 << 2));
-	if (prescaler >= 0x00 && prescaler <= 0x07) {
+	if (prescaler >= 0) {
 		l |= OMAP_TIMER_CTRL_PRE;
 		l |= prescaler << 2;
 	}
-- 
2.15.1




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