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Alexandre Belloni 10d0c768cc rtc: m41t80: fix race conditions
The IRQ is requested before the struct rtc is allocated and registered, but
this struct is used in the IRQ handler, leading to:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000017c
pgd = a38a2f9b
[0000017c] *pgd=00000000
Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] ARM
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 613 Comm: irq/48-m41t80 Not tainted 4.16.0-rc1+ #42
Hardware name: Atmel SAMA5
PC is at mutex_lock+0x14/0x38
LR is at m41t80_handle_irq+0x1c/0x9c
pc : [<c06e864c>]    lr : [<c04b70f0>]    psr: 20000013
sp : dec73f30  ip : 00000000  fp : dec56d98
r10: df437cf0  r9 : c0a03008  r8 : c0145ffc
r7 : df5c4300  r6 : dec568d0  r5 : df593000  r4 : 0000017c
r3 : df592800  r2 : 60000013  r1 : df593000  r0 : 0000017c
Flags: nzCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment none
Control: 10c53c7d  Table: 20004059  DAC: 00000051
Process irq/48-m41t80 (pid: 613, stack limit = 0xb52d091e)
Stack: (0xdec73f30 to 0xdec74000)
3f20:                                     dec56840 df5c4300 00000001 df5c4300
3f40: c0145ffc c0146018 dec56840 ffffe000 00000001 c0146290 dec567c0 00000000
3f60: c0146084 ed7c9a62 c014615c dec56d80 dec567c0 00000000 dec72000 dec56840
3f80: c014615c c012ffc0 dec72000 dec567c0 c012fe80 00000000 00000000 00000000
3fa0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 c01010e8 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
3fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
3fe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000 29282726 2d2c2b2a
[<c06e864c>] (mutex_lock) from [<c04b70f0>] (m41t80_handle_irq+0x1c/0x9c)
[<c04b70f0>] (m41t80_handle_irq) from [<c0146018>] (irq_thread_fn+0x1c/0x54)
[<c0146018>] (irq_thread_fn) from [<c0146290>] (irq_thread+0x134/0x1c0)
[<c0146290>] (irq_thread) from [<c012ffc0>] (kthread+0x140/0x148)
[<c012ffc0>] (kthread) from [<c01010e8>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c)
Exception stack(0xdec73fb0 to 0xdec73ff8)
3fa0:                                     00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
3fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
3fe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000
Code: e3c33d7f e3c3303f f5d0f000 e593300c (e1901f9f)
---[ end trace 22b027302eb7c604 ]---
genirq: exiting task "irq/48-m41t80" (613) is an active IRQ thread (irq 48)

Also, there is another possible race condition. The probe function is not
allowed to fail after the RTC is registered because the following may
happen:

CPU0:                                CPU1:
sys_load_module()
 do_init_module()
  do_one_initcall()
   cmos_do_probe()
    rtc_device_register()
     __register_chrdev()
     cdev->owner = struct module*
                                     open("/dev/rtc0")
    rtc_device_unregister()
  module_put()
  free_module()
   module_free(mod->module_core)
   /* struct module *module is now
      freed */
                                      chrdev_open()
                                       spin_lock(cdev_lock)
                                       cdev_get()
                                        try_module_get()
                                         module_is_live()
                                         /* dereferences already
                                            freed struct module* */

Switch to devm_rtc_allocate_device/rtc_register_device to allocate the rtc
before requesting the IRQ and register it as late as possible.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
2018-03-17 14:20:48 +01:00
arch unify {de,}mangle_poll(), get rid of kernel-side POLL... 2018-02-11 14:37:22 -08:00
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Documentation rtc: nvmem: allow registering the nvmem device before the rtc 2018-03-01 10:49:14 +01:00
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firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
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