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    rtc: ab-b5ze-s3: fix possible race conditions · 8bde032b
    Alexandre Belloni authored
    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.
    
    Also, 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 the RTC as late as possible.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
    8bde032b
rtc-ab-b5ze-s3.c 30 KB