diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
index a5e0ab8bd6be..9d63163244d4 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
@@ -1341,7 +1341,19 @@ static int clk_core_determine_round_nolock(struct clk_core *core,
 	if (!core)
 		return 0;
 
-	req->rate = clamp(req->rate, req->min_rate, req->max_rate);
+	/*
+	 * Some clock providers hand-craft their clk_rate_requests and
+	 * might not fill min_rate and max_rate.
+	 *
+	 * If it's the case, clamping the rate is equivalent to setting
+	 * the rate to 0 which is bad. Skip the clamping but complain so
+	 * that it gets fixed, hopefully.
+	 */
+	if (!req->min_rate && !req->max_rate)
+		pr_warn("%s: %s: clk_rate_request has initialized min or max rate.\n",
+			__func__, core->name);
+	else
+		req->rate = clamp(req->rate, req->min_rate, req->max_rate);
 
 	/*
 	 * At this point, core protection will be disabled