On 26/01/2021 18:02:11+0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > The recent fix for handling the UIP bit unearthed another issue in the RTC > code. If the RTC is advertised but the readout is straight 0xFF because > it's not available, the old code just proceeded with crappy values, but the > new code hangs because it waits for the UIP bit to become low. > > Add a sanity check in the RTC CMOS probe function which reads the RTC_VALID > register (Register D) which should have bit 0-6 cleared. If that's not the > case then fail to register the CMOS. > > Add the same check to mc146818_get_time(), warn once when the condition > is true and invalidate the rtc_time data. > > Reported-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > V2: Fixed the sizeof() as spotted by Mickaël > --- > drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c | 8 ++++++++ > drivers/rtc/rtc-mc146818-lib.c | 7 +++++++ > 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+) > > --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c > +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c > @@ -805,6 +805,14 @@ cmos_do_probe(struct device *dev, struct > > spin_lock_irq(&rtc_lock); > > + /* Ensure that the RTC is accessible. Bit 0-6 must be 0! */ > + if ((CMOS_READ(RTC_VALID) & 0x7f) != 0) { > + spin_unlock_irq(&rtc_lock); > + dev_warn(dev, "not accessible\n"); > + retval = -ENXIO; > + goto cleanup1; > + } > + > if (!(flags & CMOS_RTC_FLAGS_NOFREQ)) { > /* force periodic irq to CMOS reset default of 1024Hz; > * > --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-mc146818-lib.c > +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-mc146818-lib.c > @@ -21,6 +21,13 @@ unsigned int mc146818_get_time(struct rt > > again: > spin_lock_irqsave(&rtc_lock, flags); > + /* Ensure that the RTC is accessible. Bit 0-6 must be 0! */ > + if (WARN_ON_ONCE((CMOS_READ(RTC_VALID) & 0x7f) != 0)) { > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtc_lock, flags); > + memset(time, 0xff, sizeof(*time)); > + return 0; > + } > + > /* > * Check whether there is an update in progress during which the > * readout is unspecified. The maximum update time is ~2ms. Poll -- Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com