[PATCH] rtc: m41t80: fix race conditions

[Alexandre Belloni]

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 the it as late as possible.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/rtc/rtc-m41t80.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-m41t80.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-m41t80.c
index b3e33320c0bf..f77320948fc4 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-m41t80.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-m41t80.c
@@ -885,7 +885,6 @@ static int m41t80_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
 {
 	struct i2c_adapter *adapter = to_i2c_adapter(client->dev.parent);
 	int rc = 0;
-	struct rtc_device *rtc = NULL;
 	struct rtc_time tm;
 	struct m41t80_data *m41t80_data = NULL;
 	bool wakeup_source = false;
@@ -909,6 +908,10 @@ static int m41t80_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
 		m41t80_data->features = id->driver_data;
 	i2c_set_clientdata(client, m41t80_data);
 
+	m41t80_data->rtc =  devm_rtc_allocate_device(&client->dev);
+	if (IS_ERR(m41t80_data->rtc))
+		return PTR_ERR(m41t80_data->rtc);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_OF
 	wakeup_source = of_property_read_bool(client->dev.of_node,
 					      "wakeup-source");
@@ -932,15 +935,11 @@ static int m41t80_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
 		device_init_wakeup(&client->dev, true);
 	}
 
-	rtc = devm_rtc_device_register(&client->dev, client->name,
-				       &m41t80_rtc_ops, THIS_MODULE);
-	if (IS_ERR(rtc))
-		return PTR_ERR(rtc);
+	m41t80_data->rtc->ops = &m41t80_rtc_ops;
 
-	m41t80_data->rtc = rtc;
 	if (client->irq <= 0) {
 		/* We cannot support UIE mode if we do not have an IRQ line */
-		rtc->uie_unsupported = 1;
+		m41t80_data->rtc->uie_unsupported = 1;
 	}
 
 	/* Make sure HT (Halt Update) bit is cleared */
@@ -993,6 +992,11 @@ static int m41t80_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
 	if (m41t80_data->features & M41T80_FEATURE_SQ)
 		m41t80_sqw_register_clk(m41t80_data);
 #endif
+
+	rc = rtc_register_device(m41t80_data->rtc);
+	if (rc)
+		return rc;
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
2.16.2