[pwm] question about potential division by zero

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Tue May 16 2017 - 17:57:02 EST



Hello everybody,

While looking into Coverity ID 1408721 I ran into the following piece of code at /drivers/pwm/pwm-mediatek.c:77:

77static int mtk_pwm_config(struct pwm_chip *chip, struct pwm_device *pwm,
78 int duty_ns, int period_ns)
79{
80 struct mtk_pwm_chip *pc = to_mtk_pwm_chip(chip);
81 struct clk *clk = pc->clks[MTK_CLK_PWM1 + pwm->hwpwm];
82 u32 resolution, clkdiv = 0;
83
84 resolution = NSEC_PER_SEC / clk_get_rate(clk);
85
86 while (period_ns / resolution > 8191) {
87 resolution *= 2;
88 clkdiv++;
89 }
90
91 if (clkdiv > 7)
92 return -EINVAL;
93
94 mtk_pwm_writel(pc, pwm->hwpwm, PWMCON, BIT(15) | BIT(3) | clkdiv);
95 mtk_pwm_writel(pc, pwm->hwpwm, PWMDWIDTH, period_ns / resolution);
96 mtk_pwm_writel(pc, pwm->hwpwm, PWMTHRES, duty_ns / resolution);
97
98 return 0;
99}

The issue here is that in case _clk_ is null, function clk_get_rate() at line 84 will return zero and a division by zero will occur.

So my question here is if there is any chance for _clk_ to be null at line 81, hence ending up triggering a division by zero at line 84?

I'm trying to figure out if this is a false positive or something that needs to be fixed.

I'd really appreciate any comment on this.

Thank you
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Gustavo A. R. Silva