rtc: cmos: avoid UIP when reading alarm time
authorMateusz Jończyk <mat.jonczyk@o2.pl>
Fri, 10 Dec 2021 20:01:30 +0000 (21:01 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 14 Dec 2022 10:37:18 +0000 (11:37 +0100)
commitdc62f05f666c7f415c42d921e5dc9a6b41a15aab
treeb037aa94fa81cae4dc3a82ded7db73c2f5e34fa8
parent48ea4199af8568d51f1ba7b5c5417545d01e1628
rtc: cmos: avoid UIP when reading alarm time

[ Upstream commit cdedc45c579faf8cc6608d3ef81576ee0d512aa4 ]

Some Intel chipsets disconnect the time and date RTC registers when the
clock update is in progress: during this time reads may return bogus
values and writes fail silently. This includes the RTC alarm registers.
[1]

cmos_read_alarm() did not take account for that, which caused alarm time
reads to sometimes return bogus values. This can be shown with a test
patch that I am attaching to this patch series.

Fix this, by using mc146818_avoid_UIP().

[1] 7th Generation Intel ® Processor Family I/O for U/Y Platforms [...]
Datasheet, Volume 1 of 2 (Intel's Document Number: 334658-006)
Page 208
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/datasheets/7th-and-8th-gen-core-family-mobile-u-y-processor-lines-i-o-datasheet-vol-1.pdf
        "If a RAM read from the ten time and date bytes is attempted
        during an update cycle, the value read do not necessarily
        represent the true contents of those locations. Any RAM writes
        under the same conditions are ignored."

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Jończyk <mat.jonczyk@o2.pl>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211210200131.153887-9-mat.jonczyk@o2.pl
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c