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[2/3] rtc: sh: fix possible race condition

Message ID 20190320113010.8955-2-alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [1/3] rtc: sh: stop resetting time to epoch | expand

Commit Message

Alexandre Belloni March 20, 2019, 11:30 a.m. UTC
The IRQ is requested before the struct rtc is allocated and registered, but
this struct is used in the IRQ handler. This may lead to a NULL pointer
dereference.

Switch to devm_rtc_allocate_device/rtc_register_device to allocate the rtc
struct before requesting the IRQ.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
---
 drivers/rtc/rtc-sh.c | 16 +++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Comments

Geert Uytterhoeven March 21, 2019, 9:51 a.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 12:30 PM Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> wrote:
> The IRQ is requested before the struct rtc is allocated and registered, but
> this struct is used in the IRQ handler. This may lead to a NULL pointer
> dereference.
>
> Switch to devm_rtc_allocate_device/rtc_register_device to allocate the rtc
> struct before requesting the IRQ.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert
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diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-sh.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-sh.c
index f4ac9ec8fbb6..b582af10ddb5 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-sh.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-sh.c
@@ -531,6 +531,10 @@  static int __init sh_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		rtc->clk = NULL;
 	}
 
+	rtc->rtc_dev = devm_rtc_allocate_device(&pdev->dev);
+	if (IS_ERR(rtc->rtc_dev))
+		return PTR_ERR(rtc->rtc_dev);
+
 	clk_enable(rtc->clk);
 
 	rtc->capabilities = RTC_DEF_CAPABILITIES;
@@ -594,15 +598,13 @@  static int __init sh_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	sh_rtc_setaie(&pdev->dev, 0);
 	sh_rtc_setcie(&pdev->dev, 0);
 
-	rtc->rtc_dev = devm_rtc_device_register(&pdev->dev, "sh",
-					   &sh_rtc_ops, THIS_MODULE);
-	if (IS_ERR(rtc->rtc_dev)) {
-		ret = PTR_ERR(rtc->rtc_dev);
-		goto err_unmap;
-	}
-
+	rtc->rtc_dev->ops = &sh_rtc_ops;
 	rtc->rtc_dev->max_user_freq = 256;
 
+	ret = rtc_register_device(rtc->rtc_dev);
+	if (ret)
+		goto err_unmap;
+
 	device_init_wakeup(&pdev->dev, 1);
 	return 0;