Re: [PATCH] spi: cadence-quadspi: Add upper limit safety check to baudrate divisor

From: Mark Brown
Date: Thu Nov 24 2022 - 06:40:31 EST


On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 04:17:05PM -0500, Nathan Barrett-Morrison wrote:

> + /* Maximum baud divisor */
> + if (div > CQSPI_REG_CONFIG_BAUD_MASK)
> + div = CQSPI_REG_CONFIG_BAUD_MASK;

This will fix the overflow of the divisor but it means that we'll be
generating a faster clock than the device asked for which might lead to
problems. We should at the very least warn, though returning an error
would be safer. Ideally we'd be able to adjust the input clock to the
SPI controller to allow us to divide out an appropriate clock but that's
more disruptive.

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