From: Cosmo Chou <chou.cosmo@gmail.com>
To: alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com
Cc: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
cosmo.chou@quantatw.com, Cosmo Chou <chou.cosmo@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] rtc: pcf85363: Fix phantom device registration on missing hardware
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:51:42 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260716125142.1801599-1-chou.cosmo@gmail.com> (raw)
During probe, pcf85363_load_capacitance() writes the oscillator load
capacitance configuration to the device. However, if the device is
not physically present on the bus (returning -ENXIO), the driver
only emits a warning and continues to execute the probe.
This results in the successful registration of a phantom RTC device
via devm_rtc_register_device() and its associated nvmem regions.
Consequently, userspace may attempt to bind to a non-functional
/dev/rtc node.
Propagate the I2C error back to the driver core using dev_err_probe()
to properly abort the probe and prevent phantom device registration.
Fixes: fd9a6a13949a ("rtc: pcf85363: add support for the quartz-load-femtofarads property")
Signed-off-by: Cosmo Chou <chou.cosmo@gmail.com>
---
drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf85363.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf85363.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf85363.c
index 540042b9eec8..5612330aff40 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf85363.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf85363.c
@@ -426,8 +426,8 @@ static int pcf85363_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
err = pcf85363_load_capacitance(pcf85363, client->dev.of_node);
if (err < 0)
- dev_warn(&client->dev, "failed to set xtal load capacitance: %d",
- err);
+ return dev_err_probe(&client->dev, err,
+ "failed to set xtal load capacitance\n");
pcf85363->rtc->ops = &rtc_ops;
pcf85363->rtc->range_min = RTC_TIMESTAMP_BEGIN_2000;
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-07-16 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-16 12:51 Cosmo Chou [this message]
2026-07-16 12:56 ` [PATCH] rtc: pcf85363: Fix phantom device registration on missing hardware Alexandre Belloni
2026-07-16 14:56 ` Cosmo Chou
2026-07-16 15:22 ` Alexandre Belloni
2026-07-16 13:00 ` sashiko-bot
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