RE: [PATCH] rtc: snvs: fix possible race condition

[Aisheng Dong <aisheng.dong@nxp.com>]

> From: Anson.Huang@nxp.com <Anson.Huang@nxp.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 3:19 PM
> 
> The RTC IRQ is requested before the struct rtc_device is allocated, this may
> lead to a NULL pointer dereference in IRQ handler.
> 
> To fix this issue, allocating the rtc_device struct before requesting the RTC IRQ
> using devm_rtc_allocate_device, and use rtc_register_device to register the
> RTC device.
> 

I saw other rtc drivers did the same way as us, so this looks like a common problem.
My question is if we can clear interrupt status before register to avoid this issue as
other rtc drivers?

Regards
Aisheng

> Signed-off-by: Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@nxp.com>
> ---
>  drivers/rtc/rtc-snvs.c | 11 +++++++----
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-snvs.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-snvs.c index
> 7ee673a2..4f9a107 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-snvs.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-snvs.c
> @@ -279,6 +279,10 @@ static int snvs_rtc_probe(struct platform_device
> *pdev)
>  	if (!data)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
> 
> +	data->rtc = devm_rtc_allocate_device(&pdev->dev);
> +	if (IS_ERR(data->rtc))
> +		return PTR_ERR(data->rtc);
> +
>  	data->regmap = syscon_regmap_lookup_by_phandle(pdev->dev.of_node,
> "regmap");
> 
>  	if (IS_ERR(data->regmap)) {
> @@ -343,10 +347,9 @@ static int snvs_rtc_probe(struct platform_device
> *pdev)
>  		goto error_rtc_device_register;
>  	}
> 
> -	data->rtc = devm_rtc_device_register(&pdev->dev, pdev->name,
> -					&snvs_rtc_ops, THIS_MODULE);
> -	if (IS_ERR(data->rtc)) {
> -		ret = PTR_ERR(data->rtc);
> +	data->rtc->ops = &snvs_rtc_ops;
> +	ret = rtc_register_device(data->rtc);
> +	if (ret) {
>  		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to register rtc: %d\n", ret);
>  		goto error_rtc_device_register;
>  	}
> --
> 2.7.4