[lvc-project] [PATCH v3] serial: 8250_mtk: correct max baud rate in set_termios() method
    Sergey Shtylyov 
    s.shtylyov at omp.ru
       
    Sat Oct 18 23:44:37 MSK 2025
    
    
  
Commit 81bb549fdf14 ("serial: 8250_mtk: support big baud rate.") claimed
the maximum supported baud rate to be 4 Mbps; of the Mediatek datasheets
(I was able to get my hands on), only MT7987A datasheet did support this
claim and MT7981B/88A datasheets disagreed, claiming just 3 Mbps maximum.
However, this commit failed to enforce even the claimed maximum, passing
port->uartclk to uart_get_baud_rate() for the maximum baud rate -- while
the datasheets mention up to 52 MHz for the baud clock's frequency. This
means that an integer overflow would happen (when multiplying the baud
variable by 256) if a baud rate higher than 16777215 bps is passed via
termios->c_ospeed (division by 0 will also happen when exactly 16777216
bps is passed). Pass to uart_get_baud_rate() the documented maximum of
4 Mbps or port->uartclk (whichever happens to be lesser) -- this way,
we can avoid both overflows and regression with the maximum baud rate...
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the Svace static
analysis tool.
Fixes: 81bb549fdf14 ("serial: 8250_mtk: support big baud rate.")
Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov at omp.ru>
---
This patch is against the tty-linus branch of Greg KH's 'tty.git' repo.
Changes in version #3:
- updated the maximum baud rate to 4 Mbps;
- rewrote the description again, adding more info on the MT798x datasheets
  studied, on how the bug manifests iself, and on the solution.
Changes in version #2:
- changed the approach to the problem (and hence rewrote the description);
- removed "the" article from the subject for brevity.
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_mtk.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: tty/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_mtk.c
===================================================================
--- tty.orig/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_mtk.c
+++ tty/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_mtk.c
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ mtk8250_set_termios(struct uart_port *po
 	 */
 	baud = uart_get_baud_rate(port, termios, old,
 				  port->uartclk / 16 / UART_DIV_MAX,
-				  port->uartclk);
+				  min(4000000U, port->uartclk));
 
 	if (baud < 115200) {
 		serial_port_out(port, MTK_UART_HIGHS, 0x0);
    
    
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