[PATCH v5 8/9] rtc-cmos: avoid UIP when reading alarm time

Mateusz Jończyk
2022-01-07T12:50:23Z

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>

---

v4: fix some checkpatch --strict warnings

drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
index b90a603d6b12..6f47d68d2c86 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
@@ -249,10 +249,46 @@ static int cmos_set_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *t)
return mc146818_set_time(t);
}

+struct cmos_read_alarm_callback_param {
+ struct cmos_rtc *cmos;
+ struct rtc_time *time;
+ unsigned char rtc_control;
+};
+
+static void cmos_read_alarm_callback(unsigned char __always_unused seconds,
+ void *param_in)
+{
+ struct cmos_read_alarm_callback_param *p =
+ (struct cmos_read_alarm_callback_param *)param_in;
+ struct rtc_time *time = p->time;
+
+ time->tm_sec = CMOS_READ(RTC_SECONDS_ALARM);
+ time->tm_min = CMOS_READ(RTC_MINUTES_ALARM);
+ time->tm_hour = CMOS_READ(RTC_HOURS_ALARM);
+
+ if (p->cmos->day_alrm) {
+ /* ignore upper bits on readback per ACPI spec */
+ time->tm_mday = CMOS_READ(p->cmos->day_alrm) & 0x3f;
+ if (!time->tm_mday)
+ time->tm_mday = -1;
+
+ if (p->cmos->mon_alrm) {
+ time->tm_mon = CMOS_READ(p->cmos->mon_alrm);
+ if (!time->tm_mon)
+ time->tm_mon = -1;
+ }
+ }
+
+ p->rtc_control = CMOS_READ(RTC_CONTROL);
+}
+
static int cmos_read_alarm(struct device *dev, struct rtc_wkalrm *t)
{
struct cmos_rtc *cmos = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
- unsigned char rtc_control;
+ struct cmos_read_alarm_callback_param p = {
+ .cmos = cmos,
+ .time = &t->time,
+ };

/* This not only a rtc_op, but also called directly */
if (!is_valid_irq(cmos->irq))
@@ -263,28 +299,18 @@ static int cmos_read_alarm(struct device *dev, struct rtc_wkalrm *t)
* the future.
*/

- spin_lock_irq(&rtc_lock);
- t->time.tm_sec = CMOS_READ(RTC_SECONDS_ALARM);
- t->time.tm_min = CMOS_READ(RTC_MINUTES_ALARM);
- t->time.tm_hour = CMOS_READ(RTC_HOURS_ALARM);
-
- if (cmos->day_alrm) {
- /* ignore upper bits on readback per ACPI spec */
- t->time.tm_mday = CMOS_READ(cmos->day_alrm) & 0x3f;
- if (!t->time.tm_mday)
- t->time.tm_mday = -1;
-
- if (cmos->mon_alrm) {
- t->time.tm_mon = CMOS_READ(cmos->mon_alrm);
- if (!t->time.tm_mon)
- t->time.tm_mon = -1;
- }
- }
-
- rtc_control = CMOS_READ(RTC_CONTROL);
- spin_unlock_irq(&rtc_lock);
+ /* Some Intel chipsets disconnect the alarm registers when the clock
+ * update is in progress - during this time reads return bogus values
+ * and writes may fail silently. See for example "7th Generation Intel®
+ * Processor Family I/O for U/Y Platforms [...] Datasheet", section
+ * 27.7.1
+ *
+ * Use the mc146818_avoid_UIP() function to avoid this.
+ */
+ if (!mc146818_avoid_UIP(cmos_read_alarm_callback, &p))
+ return -EIO;

- if (!(rtc_control & RTC_DM_BINARY) || RTC_ALWAYS_BCD) {
+ if (!(p.rtc_control & RTC_DM_BINARY) || RTC_ALWAYS_BCD) {
if (((unsigned)t->time.tm_sec) < 0x60)
t->time.tm_sec = bcd2bin(t->time.tm_sec);
else
@@ -313,7 +339,7 @@ static int cmos_read_alarm(struct device *dev, struct rtc_wkalrm *t)
}
}

- t->enabled = !!(rtc_control & RTC_AIE);
+ t->enabled = !!(p.rtc_control & RTC_AIE);
t->pending = 0;

return 0;
--
2.25.1