[PATCH 0/2] wifi: iwlwifi: Fix GP2 to nanoseconds overflow on 32-bit

Zhan Xusheng <[email protected]> Wed, 5 Aug 2026 16:25:13 +0800
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-wireless,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
GP2 is a free-running 32-bit microsecond hardware counter. Both the mvm
and mld PTP code convert a u32 GP2 value to nanoseconds with

	gp2 * NSEC_PER_USEC

NSEC_PER_USEC is a plain 'long' (1000L), so on 32-bit builds the
multiplication is performed in 32-bit arithmetic and overflows once the
GP2 value exceeds ~4.29 million microseconds (~4.3 s). Since GP2 wraps
only every 2^32 microseconds (~71.5 min), the product is truncated for
almost the entire counter range, producing bogus PTP timestamps.

Most conversions in the same files already cast to u64 first
((u64)gp2 * NSEC_PER_USEC); a handful of sites (the adjfine path, the
stored scale_update_gp2 and the monitor/RX timestamp path) simply missed
the cast. These patches add the missing u64 casts so the multiplications
are done in 64-bit, matching the existing call sites. 64-bit builds are
unaffected. The mld driver inherited the same pattern (and bug) from
mvm, so it is fixed in a separate patch with its own Fixes: tags.

Found by code inspection; not tested on 32-bit hardware. The change is a
straightforward u64 cast matching the surrounding code.


Zhan Xusheng (2):
  wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: Fix GP2 to nanoseconds overflow on 32-bit
  wifi: iwlwifi: mld: Fix GP2 to nanoseconds overflow on 32-bit

 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mld/ptp.c  | 4 ++--
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mld/rx.c   | 6 ++----
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/ptp.c  | 4 ++--
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/rxmq.c | 4 ++--
 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

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