kernel/linux.git/drivers/base/dd.c, branch v6.1.175

driver core: Don't let a device probe until it's ready

2026-06-01T15:38:45+00:00

[ Upstream commit a2225b6e834a838ae3c93709760edc0a169eb2f2 ] The moment we link a "struct device" into the list of devices for the bus, it's possible probe can happen. This is because another thread can load the driver at any time and that can cause the device to probe. This has been seen in practice with a stack crawl that looks like this [1]: really_probe() __driver_probe_device() driver_probe_device() __driver_attach() bus_for_each_dev() driver_attach() bus_add_driver() driver_register() __platform_driver_register() init_module() [some module] do_one_initcall() do_init_module() load_module() __arm64_sys_finit_module() invoke_syscall() As a result of the above, it was seen that device_links_driver_bound() could be called for the device before "dev->fwnode->dev" was assigned. This prevented __fw_devlink_pickup_dangling_consumers() from being called which meant that other devices waiting on our driver's sub-nodes were stuck deferring forever. It's believed that this problem is showing up suddenly for two reasons: 1. Android has recently (last ~1 year) implemented an optimization to the order it loads modules [2]. When devices opt-in to this faster loading, modules are loaded one-after-the-other very quickly. This is unlike how other distributions do it. The reproduction of this problem has only been seen on devices that opt-in to Android's "parallel module loading". 2. Android devices typically opt-in to fw_devlink, and the most noticeable issue is the NULL "dev->fwnode->dev" in device_links_driver_bound(). fw_devlink is somewhat new code and also not in use by all Linux devices. Even though the specific symptom where "dev->fwnode->dev" wasn't assigned could be fixed by moving that assignment higher in device_add(), other parts of device_add() (like the call to device_pm_add()) are also important to run before probe. Only moving the "dev->fwnode->dev" assignment would likely fix the current symptoms but lead to difficult-to-debug problems in the future. Fix the problem by preventing probe until device_add() has run far enough that the device is ready to probe. If somehow we end up trying to probe before we're allowed, __driver_probe_device() will return -EPROBE_DEFER which will make certain the device is noticed. In the race condition that was seen with Android's faster module loading, we will temporarily add the device to the deferred list and then take it off immediately when device_add() probes the device. Instead of adding another flag to the bitfields already in "struct device", instead add a new "flags" field and use that. This allows us to freely change the bit from different thread without worrying about corrupting nearby bits (and means threads changing other bit won't corrupt us). [1] Captured on a machine running a downstream 6.6 kernel [2] https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/main/+/main:system/core/libmodprobe/libmodprobe.cpp?q=LoadModulesParallel Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 2023c610dc54 ("Driver core: add new device to bus's list before probing") Reviewed-by: Alan Stern Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) Reviewed-by: Danilo Krummrich Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260406162231.v5.1.Id750b0fbcc94f23ed04b7aecabcead688d0d8c17@changeid Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

driver core: Release all resources during unbind before updating device links

2023-11-28T17:07:13+00:00

commit 2e84dc37920012b458e9458b19fc4ed33f81bc74 upstream. This commit fixes a bug in commit 9ed9895370ae ("driver core: Functional dependencies tracking support") where the device link status was incorrectly updated in the driver unbind path before all the device's resources were released. Fixes: 9ed9895370ae ("driver core: Functional dependencies tracking support") Cc: stable Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-König Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231014161721.f4iqyroddkcyoefo@pengutronix.de/ Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan Cc: Thierry Reding Cc: Yang Yingliang Cc: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Mark Brown Cc: Matti Vaittinen Cc: James Clark Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231018013851.3303928-1-saravanak@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: Call dma_cleanup() on the test_remove path

2023-09-13T07:42:53+00:00

[ Upstream commit f429378a9bf84d79a7e2cae05d2e3384cf7d68ba ] When test_remove is enabled really_probe() does not properly pair dma_configure() with dma_remove(), it will end up calling dma_configure() twice. This corrupts the owner_cnt and renders the group unusable with VFIO/etc. Add the missing cleanup before going back to re_probe. Fixes: 25f3bcfc54bc ("driver core: Add dma_cleanup callback in bus_type") Reported-by: Zenghui Yu Tested-by: Zenghui Yu Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6472f254-c3c4-8610-4a37-8d9dfdd54ce8@huawei.com/ Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0-v2-4deed94e283e+40948-really_probe_dma_cleanup_jgg@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

driver core: Don't require dynamic_debug for initcall_debug probe timing

2023-04-30T23:26:27+00:00

commit e2f06aa885081e1391916367f53bad984714b4db upstream. Don't require the use of dynamic debug (or modification of the kernel to add a #define DEBUG to the top of this file) to get the printk message about driver probe timing. This printk is only emitted when initcall_debug is enabled on the kernel commandline, and it isn't immediately obvious that you have to do something else to debug boot timing issues related to driver probe. Add a comment too so it doesn't get converted back to pr_debug(). Fixes: eb7fbc9fb118 ("driver core: Add missing '\n' in log messages") Cc: stable Cc: Christophe JAILLET Cc: Brian Norris Reviewed-by: Brian Norris Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230412225842.3196599-1-swboyd@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers: base: dd: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()

2023-03-11T12:55:39+00:00

[ Upstream commit 36c893d3a759ae7c91ee7d4871ebfc7504f08c40 ] When calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it, otherwise the memory will leak over time. To make things simpler, just call debugfs_lookup_and_remove() instead which handles all of the logic at once. Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230202141621.2296458-2-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

driver core: Fix bus_type.match() error handling in __driver_attach()

2023-01-07T10:11:54+00:00

commit 27c0d217340e47ec995557f61423ef415afba987 upstream. When a driver registers with a bus, it will attempt to match with every device on the bus through the __driver_attach() function. Currently, if the bus_type.match() function encounters an error that is not -EPROBE_DEFER, __driver_attach() will return a negative error code, which causes the driver registration logic to stop trying to match with the remaining devices on the bus. This behavior is not correct; a failure while matching a driver to a device does not mean that the driver won't be able to match and bind with other devices on the bus. Update the logic in __driver_attach() to reflect this. Fixes: 656b8035b0ee ("ARM: 8524/1: driver cohandle -EPROBE_DEFER from bus_type.match()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Saravana Kannan Signed-off-by: Isaac J. Manjarres Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220921001414.4046492-1-isaacmanjarres@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge 6.0-rc5 into driver-core-next

2022-09-12T14:51:22+00:00

We need the driver core and debugfs changes in this branch. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver_core: move from strlcpy with unused retval to strscpy

2022-09-01T16:15:32+00:00

Follow the advice of the below link and prefer 'strscpy' in this subsystem. Conversion is 1:1 because the return value is not used. Generated by a coccinelle script. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgfRnXz0W3D37d01q3JFkr_i_uTL=V6A6G1oUZcprmknw@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220818205956.6528-1-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: Don't probe devices after bus_type.match() probe deferral

2022-09-01T13:57:13+00:00

Both __device_attach_driver() and __driver_attach() check the return code of the bus_type.match() function to see if the device needs to be added to the deferred probe list. After adding the device to the list, the logic attempts to bind the device to the driver anyway, as if the device had matched with the driver, which is not correct. If __device_attach_driver() detects that the device in question is not ready to match with a driver on the bus, then it doesn't make sense for the device to attempt to bind with the current driver or continue attempting to match with any of the other drivers on the bus. So, update the logic in __device_attach_driver() to reflect this. If __driver_attach() detects that a driver tried to match with a device that is not ready to match yet, then the driver should not attempt to bind with the device. However, the driver can still attempt to match and bind with other devices on the bus, as drivers can be bound to multiple devices. So, update the logic in __driver_attach() to reflect this. Fixes: 656b8035b0ee ("ARM: 8524/1: driver cohandle -EPROBE_DEFER from bus_type.match()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Saravana Kannan Reported-by: Guenter Roeck Tested-by: Guenter Roeck Tested-by: Linus Walleij Reviewed-by: Saravana Kannan Signed-off-by: Isaac J. Manjarres Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220817184026.3468620-1-isaacmanjarres@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "driver core: Delete driver_deferred_probe_check_state()"

2022-08-23T11:14:02+00:00

This reverts commit 9cbffc7a59561be950ecc675d19a3d2b45202b2b. There are a few more issues to fix that have been reported in the thread for the original series [1]. We'll need to fix those before this will work. So, revert it for now. [1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220601070707.3946847-1-saravanak@google.com/ Fixes: 9cbffc7a5956 ("driver core: Delete driver_deferred_probe_check_state()") Tested-by: Tony Lindgren Tested-by: Peng Fan Tested-by: Douglas Anderson Tested-by: Alexander Stein Reviewed-by: Tony Lindgren Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220819221616.2107893-2-saravanak@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman