Re: [PATCH] drivers: watchdog: rdc321x_wdt: Fix race condition bugs

[Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>]

On 8/7/2020 9:21 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 04:59:02PM +0530, madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com wrote:
>> From: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com>
>>
>> In rdc321x_wdt_probe(), rdc321x_wdt_device.queue is initialized
>> after misc_register(), hence if ioctl is called before its
>> initialization which can call rdc321x_wdt_start() function,
>> it will see an uninitialized value of rdc321x_wdt_device.queue,
>> hence initialize it before misc_register().
>> Also, rdc321x_wdt_device.default_ticks is accessed in reset()
>> function called from write callback, thus initialize it before
>> misc_register().
>>
>> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> 
> Having said that ... this is yet another potentially obsolete driver.
> You are really wasting your (and, fwiw, my) time.
> 
> Florian, any thoughts if support for this chip can/should be deprecated
> or even removed ?

I am still using my rdc321x-based SoC, so no, this is not obsolete as
far as I am concerned, time permitting, modernizing the driver is on my
TODO after checking/fixing the Ethernet driver first.

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
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Florian