diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq_simple_dev.c b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq_simple_dev.c
index b354bcb2aba2..ba562bdcd787 100644
--- a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq_simple_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq_simple_dev.c
@@ -61,9 +61,18 @@ static void find_freq(struct devfreq_dev_profile *p, unsigned long *freq,
 static int dev_target(struct device *dev, unsigned long *freq, u32 flags)
 {
 	struct dev_data *d = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+	unsigned long rfreq;
 
 	find_freq(&d->profile, freq, flags);
-	return clk_set_rate(d->clk, *freq * 1000);
+
+	rfreq = clk_round_rate(d->clk, *freq * 1000);
+	if (IS_ERR_VALUE(rfreq)) {
+		dev_err(dev, "devfreq: Cannot find matching frequency for %lu\n",
+			*freq);
+		return rfreq;
+	}
+
+	return clk_set_rate(d->clk, rfreq);
 }
 
 static int dev_get_cur_freq(struct device *dev, unsigned long *freq)