Hello Brian, On 21/05/2018 09:42:22-0700, Brian Norris wrote: > __rtc_read_time() can fail (e.g., if the RTC uses an unreliable medium). > When it does, we don't report the error, but instead calculate a > 1-second alarm based on the potentially-garbage 'tm' (in practice, > __rtc_read_time() zeroes out the time first, so it's likely to still be > all 0). > > Let's propagate the error instead. > I submitted https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rtc/20191021155631.3342-2-alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u to solve this after looking at all the implication checking the return value of __rtc_read_time had. > Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/rtc/interface.c | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/rtc/interface.c b/drivers/rtc/interface.c > index 7cbdc9228dd5..a4bdd8b5fe2e 100644 > --- a/drivers/rtc/interface.c > +++ b/drivers/rtc/interface.c > @@ -555,7 +555,9 @@ int rtc_update_irq_enable(struct rtc_device *rtc, unsigned int enabled) > struct rtc_time tm; > ktime_t now, onesec; > > - __rtc_read_time(rtc, &tm); > + err = __rtc_read_time(rtc, &tm); > + if (err) > + goto out; > onesec = ktime_set(1, 0); > now = rtc_tm_to_ktime(tm); > rtc->uie_rtctimer.node.expires = ktime_add(now, onesec); > -- > 2.17.0.441.gb46fe60e1d-goog > -- Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com