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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] clocksource: sun4i: Clear interrupts after stopping timer in probe function
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On 08/25/2016 08:26 AM, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> The bootloader (U-boot) sometimes uses this timer for various delays.
> It uses it as a ongoing counter, and does comparisons on the current
> counter value. The timer counter is never stopped.
>
> In some cases when the user interacts with the bootloader, or lets
> it idle for some time before loading Linux, the timer may expire,
> and an interrupt will be pending. This results in an unexpected
> interrupt when the timer interrupt is enabled by the kernel, at
> which point the event_handler isn't set yet. This results in a NULL
> pointer dereference exception, panic, and no way to reboot.
>
> Clear any pending interrupts after we stop the timer in the probe
> function to avoid this.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>
> ---

Applied.

Thanks !

-- Daniel

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