From: "Russell King (Oracle)" rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk
The i.MX6 CPU frequency driver sometimes fails to register at boot time due to nvmem_cell_read_u32() sporadically returning -ENOENT.
This happens because there is a window where __nvmem_device_get() in of_nvmem_cell_get() is able to return the nvmem device, but as cells have been setup, nvmem_find_cell_entry_by_node() returns NULL.
The occurs because the nvmem core registration code violates one of the fundamental principles of kernel programming: do not publish data structures before their setup is complete.
Fix this by making nvmem core code conform with this principle.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: eace75cfdcf7 ("nvmem: Add a simple NVMEM framework for nvmem providers") Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org --- drivers/nvmem/core.c | 18 ++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c index ac77a019aed7..e92c6f1aadbb 100644 --- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c +++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c @@ -832,22 +832,16 @@ struct nvmem_device *nvmem_register(const struct nvmem_config *config) nvmem->dev.groups = nvmem_dev_groups; #endif
- dev_dbg(&nvmem->dev, "Registering nvmem device %s\n", config->name); - - rval = device_add(&nvmem->dev); - if (rval) - goto err_put_device; - if (nvmem->nkeepout) { rval = nvmem_validate_keepouts(nvmem); if (rval) - goto err_device_del; + goto err_put_device; }
if (config->compat) { rval = nvmem_sysfs_setup_compat(nvmem, config); if (rval) - goto err_device_del; + goto err_put_device; }
if (config->cells) { @@ -864,6 +858,12 @@ struct nvmem_device *nvmem_register(const struct nvmem_config *config) if (rval) goto err_remove_cells;
+ dev_dbg(&nvmem->dev, "Registering nvmem device %s\n", config->name); + + rval = device_add(&nvmem->dev); + if (rval) + goto err_remove_cells; + blocking_notifier_call_chain(&nvmem_notifier, NVMEM_ADD, nvmem);
return nvmem; @@ -873,8 +873,6 @@ struct nvmem_device *nvmem_register(const struct nvmem_config *config) err_teardown_compat: if (config->compat) nvmem_sysfs_remove_compat(nvmem, config); -err_device_del: - device_del(&nvmem->dev); err_put_device: put_device(&nvmem->dev);