Re: [rtc-linux] [PATCH v2] rtc: armada38x: Fix concurrency access in armada38x_rtc_set_time

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Hi Andrew,

Do you mind sending that one to Linus in the 4.1 cycle?

Thanks!

On 27/04/2015 at 09:20:15 +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote :
> While setting the time, the RTC TIME register should not be
> accessed. However due to hardware constraints, setting the RTC time
> involves sleeping during 100ms. This sleep was done outside the
> critical section protected by the spinlock, so it was possible to read
> the RTC TIME register and get an incorrect value. This patch
> introduces a mutex for protecting the RTC TIME access, unlike the
> spinlock it is allowed to sleep in a critical section protected by a
> mutex. The RTC STATUS register can still be used from the interrupt
> handler but it has no effect on setting the time.
> 
> Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> #v4.0
> ---
> Hi,
> 
> The first version of this patch was sent too late to be part of
> 4.1-rc1. However this fix should be part of 4.1.
> 
> Since the first version I added the acked-by from Alexandre and I
> rebased the patch onto v4.1-rc1.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gregory
> 
> 
>  drivers/rtc/rtc-armada38x.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-armada38x.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-armada38x.c
> index 43e04af39e09..cb70ced7e0db 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-armada38x.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-armada38x.c
> @@ -40,6 +40,13 @@ struct armada38x_rtc {
>  	void __iomem	    *regs;
>  	void __iomem	    *regs_soc;
>  	spinlock_t	    lock;
> +	/*
> +	 * While setting the time, the RTC TIME register should not be
> +	 * accessed. Setting the RTC time involves sleeping during
> +	 * 100ms, so a mutex instead of a spinlock is used to protect
> +	 * it
> +	 */
> +	struct mutex	    mutex_time;
>  	int		    irq;
>  };
>  
> @@ -59,8 +66,7 @@ static int armada38x_rtc_read_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
>  	struct armada38x_rtc *rtc = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
>  	unsigned long time, time_check, flags;
>  
> -	spin_lock_irqsave(&rtc->lock, flags);
> -
> +	mutex_lock(&rtc->mutex_time);
>  	time = readl(rtc->regs + RTC_TIME);
>  	/*
>  	 * WA for failing time set attempts. As stated in HW ERRATA if
> @@ -71,7 +77,7 @@ static int armada38x_rtc_read_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
>  	if ((time_check - time) > 1)
>  		time_check = readl(rtc->regs + RTC_TIME);
>  
> -	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtc->lock, flags);
> +	mutex_unlock(&rtc->mutex_time);
>  
>  	rtc_time_to_tm(time_check, tm);
>  
> @@ -94,19 +100,12 @@ static int armada38x_rtc_set_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
>  	 * then wait for 100ms before writing to the time register to be
>  	 * sure that the data will be taken into account.
>  	 */
> -	spin_lock_irqsave(&rtc->lock, flags);
> -
> +	mutex_lock(&rtc->mutex_time);
>  	rtc_delayed_write(0, rtc, RTC_STATUS);
> -
> -	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtc->lock, flags);
> -
>  	msleep(100);
> -
> -	spin_lock_irqsave(&rtc->lock, flags);
> -
>  	rtc_delayed_write(time, rtc, RTC_TIME);
> +	mutex_unlock(&rtc->mutex_time);
>  
> -	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtc->lock, flags);
>  out:
>  	return ret;
>  }
> @@ -230,6 +229,7 @@ static __init int armada38x_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  
>  	spin_lock_init(&rtc->lock);
> +	mutex_init(&rtc->mutex_time);
>  
>  	res = platform_get_resource_byname(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, "rtc");
>  	rtc->regs = devm_ioremap_resource(&pdev->dev, res);
> -- 
> 2.1.0
> 
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