This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rtc: cmos: take rtc_lock while reading from CMOS to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: rtc-cmos-take-rtc_lock-while-reading-from-cmos.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 454f47ff464325223129b9b5b8d0b61946ec704d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Mateusz=20Jo=C5=84czyk?= <mat.jonczyk@xxxxx> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 21:01:23 +0100 Subject: rtc: cmos: take rtc_lock while reading from CMOS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Mateusz Jończyk <mat.jonczyk@xxxxx> commit 454f47ff464325223129b9b5b8d0b61946ec704d upstream. 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 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 Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211210200131.153887-2-mat.jonczyk@xxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c @@ -463,7 +463,10 @@ static int cmos_set_alarm(struct device 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; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mat.jonczyk@xxxxx are queue-5.10/rtc-cmos-take-rtc_lock-while-reading-from-cmos.patch