Re: [PATCH] rtc: sunxi: fix possible race condition

From: Maxime Ripard
Date: Mon Jun 04 2018 - 08:31:31 EST


On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 02:05:40PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni 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
> before requesting the IRQ.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Maxime

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