The driver may sleep under a spinlock. The function call path is: rtc7301_set_time (acquire the spinlock) usleep_range --> may sleep To fix it, usleep_range is replaced with udelay. This bug is found by my static analysis tool(DSAC) and checked by my code review. Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rtc/rtc-r7301.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-r7301.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-r7301.c index 28d5408..a040536 100644 --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-r7301.c +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-r7301.c @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ static int rtc7301_set_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm) spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags); rtc7301_stop(priv); - usleep_range(200, 300); + udelay(300); rtc7301_select_bank(priv, 0); rtc7301_write_time(priv, tm, false); rtc7301_start(priv); -- 1.7.9.5