drivers/rtc/rtc-rv3029c2.c: fix potential race condition

RTC drivers must not return an error after device registration. Signed-off-by: Gregory Hermant <[email protected]> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
CamonZ · Apr 3, 2014 · 67ab244 · 67ab244
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commit 67ab244
Showing 1 changed file with 6 additions and 6 deletions.
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-rv3029c2.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-rv3029c2.c
@@ -395,6 +395,12 @@ static int rv3029c2_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
 	if (!i2c_check_functionality(client->adapter, I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_EMUL))
 		return -ENODEV;
 
+	rc = rv3029c2_i2c_get_sr(client, buf);
+	if (rc < 0) {
+		dev_err(&client->dev, "reading status failed\n");
+		return rc;
+	}
+
 	rtc = devm_rtc_device_register(&client->dev, client->name,
 					&rv3029c2_rtc_ops, THIS_MODULE);
 
@@ -403,12 +409,6 @@ static int rv3029c2_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
 
 	i2c_set_clientdata(client, rtc);
 
-	rc = rv3029c2_i2c_get_sr(client, buf);
-	if (rc < 0) {
-		dev_err(&client->dev, "reading status failed\n");
-		return rc;
-	}
-
 	return 0;
 }