RE: [PATCH] rtc: snvs: fix possible race condition

[Aisheng Dong]

> From: Anson Huang
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 9:58 PM> 
> Hi, Aisheng
> 
> > > From: Anson.Huang@xxxxxxx <Anson.Huang@xxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 3:19 PM
> > >
> > > The RTC IRQ is requested before the struct rtc_device is allocated,
> > > this may lead to a NULL pointer dereference in IRQ handler.
> > >
> > > To fix this issue, allocating the rtc_device struct before
> > > requesting the RTC IRQ using devm_rtc_allocate_device, and use
> > > rtc_register_device to register the RTC device.
> > >
> >
> > I saw other rtc drivers did the same way as us, so this looks like a
> > common problem.
> > My question is if we can clear interrupt status before register to
> > avoid this issue as other rtc drivers?
> 
> I think we can NOT predict when the IRQ will be pending, IRQ could arrive at
> any time, the most safe way is to prepare everything before
> requesting/enabling IRQ.
> There is also patch to fix similar issue:
> 

I just feel like it's common issue. But seems community already did the same thing.
So:
Reviewed-by: Dong Aisheng <aisheng.dong@xxxxxxx>

Regards
Aisheng

> commit 060711f5274dfc2d76a5b2cd65abf6ccbf061e40
> Author: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Tue Apr 30 11:32:09 2019 +0200
> 
>     rtc: digicolor: fix possible race condition
> 
> Anson