linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.19 225/239] rtc: pxa: fix null pointer dereference

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Message-Id: <20220124183950.263085309@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:44:23 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Laurence de Bruxelles <lfdebrux@...il.com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.19 225/239] rtc: pxa: fix null pointer dereference

From: Laurence de Bruxelles <lfdebrux@...il.com>

commit 34127b3632b21e5c391756e724b1198eb9917981 upstream.

With the latest stable kernel versions the rtc on the PXA based
Zaurus does not work, when booting I see the following kernel messages:

pxa-rtc pxa-rtc: failed to find rtc clock source
pxa-rtc pxa-rtc: Unable to init SA1100 RTC sub-device
pxa-rtc: probe of pxa-rtc failed with error -2
hctosys: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)

I think this is because commit f2997775b111 ("rtc: sa1100: fix possible
race condition") moved the allocation of the rtc_device struct out of
sa1100_rtc_init and into sa1100_rtc_probe. This means that pxa_rtc_probe
also needs to do allocation for the rtc_device struct, otherwise
sa1100_rtc_init will try to dereference a null pointer. This patch adds
that allocation by copying how sa1100_rtc_probe in
drivers/rtc/rtc-sa1100.c does it; after the IRQs are set up a managed
rtc_device is allocated.

I've tested this patch with `qemu-system-arm -machine akita` and with a
real Zaurus SL-C1000 applied to 4.19, 5.4, and 5.10.

Signed-off-by: Laurence de Bruxelles <lfdebrux@...il.com>
Fixes: f2997775b111 ("rtc: sa1100: fix possible race condition")
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220101154149.12026-1-lfdebrux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/rtc/rtc-pxa.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-pxa.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-pxa.c
@@ -349,6 +349,10 @@ static int __init pxa_rtc_probe(struct p
 		return -ENXIO;
 	}

+	sa1100_rtc->rtc = devm_rtc_allocate_device(&pdev->dev);
+	if (IS_ERR(sa1100_rtc->rtc))
+		return PTR_ERR(sa1100_rtc->rtc);
+
 	pxa_rtc->base = devm_ioremap(dev, pxa_rtc->ress->start,
 				resource_size(pxa_rtc->ress));
 	if (!pxa_rtc->base) {