Re: [PATCH] alarmtimer: add .remove_dev hook to put device

[John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>]

On 07/04/2012 09:13 AM, Shawn Guo wrote:
> The following is a test sequence that installs a rtc module, remove it
> and installs it again.
>
> $ insmod rtc-snvs.ko
> snvs_rtc 20cc034.snvs-rtc-lp: rtc core: registered 20cc034.snvs-rtc-lp as rtc0
> $ hwclock
> Thu Jul  5 08:53:35 2012  0.000000 seconds
> $ rmmod rtc-snvs.ko
> $ insmod rtc-snvs.ko
> snvs_rtc 20cc034.snvs-rtc-lp: rtc core: registered 20cc034.snvs-rtc-lp as rtc1
> $ hwclock
> hwclock: can't open '/dev/misc/rtc': No such file or directory
> $
>
> The device is registered as rtc0 for the first time insmod, while it
> becomes rtc1 with the later insmod.
>
> It's root caused by alarmtimer which never puts the device even when
> the rtc is removed.  The patch adds a .remove_dev hook to have device
> properly put, so that above insmod/rmmod sequence can the rtc device
> registered in a consistent behavior.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
> ---
>   kernel/time/alarmtimer.c |   12 ++++++++++++
>   1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
> index aa27d39..39e8773 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
> @@ -96,6 +96,17 @@ static int alarmtimer_rtc_add_device(struct device *dev,
>   	return 0;
>   }
>
> +static void alarmtimer_rtc_remove_device(struct device *dev,
> +				struct class_interface *class_intf)
> +{
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&rtcdev_lock, flags);
> +	rtcdev = NULL;
> +	put_device(dev);
> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtcdev_lock, flags);
> +}
> +

Looking at this a little closer, you need to validate that the device 
being removed is the actual rtcdev before setting it to null.

Otherwise if there's two rtc drivers, and the 1st is the current rtcdev, 
you'll clear rtcdev if the second rtc driver is removed.

I'll go ahead and fix this up for you.

thanks
-john