From: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>

In mchp_core_pwm_apply_locked(), if hw_period_steps is equal to its max,
an error is reported and .apply fails. The max value is actually a
permitted value however, and so this check can fail where multiple
channels are enabled.

For example, the first channel to be configured requests a period that
sets hw_period_steps to the maximum value, and when a second channel
is enabled the driver reads hw_period_steps back from the hardware and
finds it to be the maximum possible value, triggering the warning on a
permitted value. The value to be avoided is 255 (PERIOD_STEPS_MAX + 1),
as that will produce undesired behaviour, so test for greater than,
rather than equal to.

Fixes: 2bf7ecf7b4ff ("pwm: add microchip soft ip corePWM driver")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
---
CC: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
CC: Daire McNamara <daire.mcnamara@microchip.com>
CC: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@kernel.org>
CC: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
CC: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
CC: linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/pwm/pwm-microchip-core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pwm/pwm-microchip-core.c b/drivers/pwm/pwm-microchip-core.c
index c1f2287b8e97..12821b4bbf97 100644
--- a/drivers/pwm/pwm-microchip-core.c
+++ b/drivers/pwm/pwm-microchip-core.c
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ static int mchp_core_pwm_apply_locked(struct pwm_chip *chip, struct pwm_device *
 		 * mchp_core_pwm_calc_period().
 		 * The period is locked and we cannot change this, so we abort.
 		 */
-		if (hw_period_steps == MCHPCOREPWM_PERIOD_STEPS_MAX)
+		if (hw_period_steps > MCHPCOREPWM_PERIOD_STEPS_MAX)
 			return -EINVAL;
 
 		prescale = hw_prescale;
-- 
2.45.2

Hello Conor,

On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 02:42:56PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> From: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
> 
> In mchp_core_pwm_apply_locked(), if hw_period_steps is equal to its max,
> an error is reported and .apply fails. The max value is actually a
> permitted value however, and so this check can fail where multiple
> channels are enabled.
> 
> For example, the first channel to be configured requests a period that
> sets hw_period_steps to the maximum value, and when a second channel
> is enabled the driver reads hw_period_steps back from the hardware and
> finds it to be the maximum possible value, triggering the warning on a
> permitted value. The value to be avoided is 255 (PERIOD_STEPS_MAX + 1),
> as that will produce undesired behaviour, so test for greater than,
> rather than equal to.
> 
> Fixes: 2bf7ecf7b4ff ("pwm: add microchip soft ip corePWM driver")
> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>

Applied to

	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ukleinek/linux.git pwm/fixes

which I intend to send to Linus next week.

Best regards
Uwe