nvmem: core: fix registration vs use race

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The i.MX6 CPU frequency driver sometimes fails to register at boot time
due to nvmem_cell_read_u32() sporadically returning -ENOENT.

This happens because there is a window where __nvmem_device_get() in
of_nvmem_cell_get() is able to return the nvmem device, but as cells
have been setup, nvmem_find_cell_entry_by_node() returns NULL.

The occurs because the nvmem core registration code violates one of the
fundamental principles of kernel programming: do not publish data
structures before their setup is complete.

Fix this by making nvmem core code conform with this principle.

Fixes: eace75cfdc ("nvmem: Add a simple NVMEM framework for nvmem providers")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230127104015.23839-7-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Russell King (Oracle) 2023-01-27 10:40:11 +00:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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