rtc: ep93xx: Initialize drvdata before registering device
authorWolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Thu, 5 May 2011 09:46:15 +0000 (11:46 +0200)
committerJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Sat, 7 May 2011 00:42:04 +0000 (17:42 -0700)
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@towertech.it>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
[Fixed up commit log -jstultz]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
drivers/rtc/rtc-ep93xx.c

index 11ae64d..335551d 100644 (file)
@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ static int __init ep93xx_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
                return -ENXIO;
 
        pdev->dev.platform_data = ep93xx_rtc;
+       platform_set_drvdata(pdev, rtc);
 
        rtc = rtc_device_register(pdev->name,
                                &pdev->dev, &ep93xx_rtc_ops, THIS_MODULE);
@@ -159,8 +160,6 @@ static int __init ep93xx_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
                goto exit;
        }
 
-       platform_set_drvdata(pdev, rtc);
-
        err = sysfs_create_group(&pdev->dev.kobj, &ep93xx_rtc_sysfs_files);
        if (err)
                goto fail;
@@ -168,9 +167,9 @@ static int __init ep93xx_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
        return 0;
 
 fail:
-       platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
        rtc_device_unregister(rtc);
 exit:
+       platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
        pdev->dev.platform_data = NULL;
        return err;
 }