Re: [patch 1/8] rtc: mc146818: Prevent reading garbage - bug

["Mickaël Salaün" <mic@digikod.net>]

Thanks for the fix! It boots now with a new message:
rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: not accessible

I tested with rtc=on and rtc=off (which didn't make a difference before
this fix) on a microvm:
https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/docs/system/i386/microvm.rst

There is one issue with the memset though:

On 26/01/2021 14:26, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25 2021 at 19:40, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
>> After some bisecting, I found that commit 05a0302c3548 ("rtc: mc146818:
>> Prevent reading garbage", this patch, introduced since v5.11-rc1) makes
>> my VM hang at boot. Before this commit, I got this (and didn't notice)
>> at every boot:
>> rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: registered as rtc0
>> rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: hctosys: unable to read the hardware clock
>> rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: alarms up to one day, 114 bytes nvram
>>
>> I notice that this patch creates infinite loops, which my VM falls into
>> (cf. below).
>>> +	time->tm_sec = CMOS_READ(RTC_SECONDS);
>>> +
>>> +	if (CMOS_READ(RTC_FREQ_SELECT) & RTC_UIP) {
>>> +		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtc_lock, flags);
>>> +		mdelay(1);
>>
>> My VM loops here.
>> time->tm_sec is always 255.
> 
> That means there is no RTC and therefore the CMOS_READ($REG) returns
> 0xFF which makes the loop stuck because RTC_UIP is always set.
> 
> Yet another proof that VIRT creates more problems than it solves.
> 
> Fix below.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>         tglx
> ---
> Subject: rtc: mc146818: Detect and handle broken RTCs
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:38:40 +0100
> 
> The recent fix for handling the UIP bit unearthed another issue in the RTC
> code. If the RTC is advertised but the readout is straight 0xFF because
> it's not available, the old code just proceeded with crappy values, but the
> new code hangs because it waits for the UIP bit to become low.
> 
> Add a sanity check in the RTC CMOS probe function which reads the RTC_VALID
> register (Register D) which should have bit 0-6 cleared. If that's not the
> case then fail to register the CMOS.
> 
> Add the same check to mc146818_get_time(), warn once when the condition
> is true and invalidate the rtc_time data.
> 
> Reported-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> ---
>  drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c         |    8 ++++++++
>  drivers/rtc/rtc-mc146818-lib.c |    7 +++++++
>  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
> 
> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
> @@ -805,6 +805,14 @@ cmos_do_probe(struct device *dev, struct
>  
>  	spin_lock_irq(&rtc_lock);
>  
> +	/* Ensure that the RTC is accessible. Bit 0-6 must be 0! */
> +	if ((CMOS_READ(RTC_VALID) & 0x7f) != 0) {
> +		spin_unlock_irq(&rtc_lock);
> +		dev_warn(dev, "not accessible\n");
> +		retval = -ENXIO;
> +		goto cleanup1;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (!(flags & CMOS_RTC_FLAGS_NOFREQ)) {
>  		/* force periodic irq to CMOS reset default of 1024Hz;
>  		 *
> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-mc146818-lib.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-mc146818-lib.c
> @@ -21,6 +21,13 @@ unsigned int mc146818_get_time(struct rt
>  
>  again:
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&rtc_lock, flags);
> +	/* Ensure that the RTC is accessible. Bit 0-6 must be 0! */
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE((CMOS_READ(RTC_VALID) & 0x7f) != 0)) {
> +		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtc_lock, flags);
> +		memset(time, 0xff, sizeof(time));

This should be: sizeof(*time)

> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +
>  	/*
>  	 * Check whether there is an update in progress during which the
>  	 * readout is unspecified. The maximum update time is ~2ms. Poll
> 

Tested-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@linux.microsoft.com>