RE: [PATCH V2] rtc: snvs: fix possible race condition

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Hi, Alexandre

> On 19/07/2019 11:01:02+0800, Anson.Huang@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > The RTC IRQ is requested before the struct rtc_device is allocated,
> > this may lead to a NULL pointer dereference in IRQ handler.
> >
> > To fix this issue, allocating the rtc_device struct and register rtc
> > device before requesting the RTC IRQ.
> >
> > Using devm_rtc_allocate_device/rtc_register_device instead of
> > devm_rtc_device_register.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Changes since V1:
> > 	- move devm_request_irq() to after rtc device register done, make
> sure everything
> > 	  is ready before enabling IRQ.
> 
> This opens another race condition, the first version of the patch was correct.

Hmm, OK, then we should go with V1.

Thanks,
Anson.




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