Reading from the CMOS involves writing to the index register and then reading from the data register. Therefore access to the CMOS has to be serialized with the rtc_lock. This invocation of CMOS_READ was not serialized, which could cause trouble when other code is accessing CMOS at the same time. Use spin_lock_irq() like the rest of the function. Nothing in kernel modifies the RTC_DM_BINARY bit, so there could be a separate pair of spin_lock_irq() / spin_unlock_irq() before doing the math. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Jończyk <mat.jonczyk@xxxxx> Reviewed-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c index 670fd8a2970e..2cd0fe728ab2 100644 --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c @@ -463,7 +463,10 @@ static int cmos_set_alarm(struct device *dev, struct rtc_wkalrm *t) min = t->time.tm_min; sec = t->time.tm_sec; + spin_lock_irq(&rtc_lock); rtc_control = CMOS_READ(RTC_CONTROL); + spin_unlock_irq(&rtc_lock); + if (!(rtc_control & RTC_DM_BINARY) || RTC_ALWAYS_BCD) { /* Writing 0xff means "don't care" or "match all". */ mon = (mon <= 12) ? bin2bcd(mon) : 0xff; -- 2.25.1