[PATCH 02/11] rtc: davinci: Initialize drvdata before registering device

From: John Stultz
Date: Fri May 06 2011 - 21:23:03 EST


From: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Commit f44f7f96a20 ("RTC: Initialize kernel state from RTC") uncovered
an issue in a number of RTC drivers, where the drivers call
rtc_device_register before initializing the device or platform drvdata.

This frequently results in null pointer dereferences when the
rtc_device_register immediately makes use of the rtc device, calling
rtc_read_alarm.

The solution is to ensure the drvdata is initialized prior to registering
the rtc device.

CC: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: rtc-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[fixed up commit log -jstultz]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/rtc/rtc-davinci.c | 5 +++--
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-davinci.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-davinci.c
index 8d46838..755e1fe 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-davinci.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-davinci.c
@@ -524,6 +524,8 @@ static int __init davinci_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
goto fail2;
}

+ platform_set_drvdata(pdev, davinci_rtc);
+
davinci_rtc->rtc = rtc_device_register(pdev->name, &pdev->dev,
&davinci_rtc_ops, THIS_MODULE);
if (IS_ERR(davinci_rtc->rtc)) {
@@ -553,8 +555,6 @@ static int __init davinci_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)

rtcss_write(davinci_rtc, PRTCSS_RTC_CCTRL_CAEN, PRTCSS_RTC_CCTRL);

- platform_set_drvdata(pdev, davinci_rtc);
-
device_init_wakeup(&pdev->dev, 0);

return 0;
@@ -562,6 +562,7 @@ static int __init davinci_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
fail4:
rtc_device_unregister(davinci_rtc->rtc);
fail3:
+ platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
iounmap(davinci_rtc->base);
fail2:
release_mem_region(davinci_rtc->pbase, davinci_rtc->base_size);
--
1.7.3.2.146.gca209

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