kernel/linux.git/include/linux/device.h, branch v6.1.175

driver core: Move dev_err_probe() to where it belogs

2026-06-01T15:39:19+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9e0cace7a6254070159ebd86497eadc29ea307ca ] dev_err_probe() belongs to the printing API, hence move the definition from device.h to dev_printk.h. There is no change to the callers at all, since: 1) implementation is located in the same core.c; 2) dev_printk.h is guaranteed to be included by device.h. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230721131309.16821-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Stable-dep-of: 797cc011ae02 ("backlight: sky81452-backlight: Check return value of devm_gpiod_get_optional() in sky81452_bl_parse_dt()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

driver core: device.h: remove extern from function prototypes

2026-06-01T15:39:19+00:00

[ Upstream commit f43243c66e5e9ad839d235f82a58e73a7e7612af ] The kernel coding style does not require 'extern' in function prototypes in .h files, so remove them from include/linux/device.h as they are not needed. Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230324122711.2664537-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Stable-dep-of: 797cc011ae02 ("backlight: sky81452-backlight: Check return value of devm_gpiod_get_optional() in sky81452_bl_parse_dt()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

driver core: Add kernel-doc for DEV_FLAG_COUNT enum value

2026-06-01T15:38:52+00:00

commit 5b484311507b5d403c1f7a45f6aa3778549e268b upstream. Even though nobody should use this value (except when declaring the "flags" bitmap), kernel-doc still gets upset that it's not documented. It reports: WARNING: ../include/linux/device.h:519 Enum value 'DEV_FLAG_COUNT' not described in enum 'struct_device_flags' Add the description of DEV_FLAG_COUNT. Fixes: a2225b6e834a ("driver core: Don't let a device probe until it's ready") Reported-by: Randy Dunlap Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/f318cd43-81fd-48b9-abf7-92af85f12f91@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson Tested-by: Randy Dunlap Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260413195910.1.I23aca74fe2d3636a47df196a80920fecb2643220@changeid Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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/PM: Set power.no_callbacks along with power.no_pm

2025-10-15T09:56:24+00:00

commit c2ce2453413d429e302659abc5ace634e873f6f5 upstream. Devices with power.no_pm set are not expected to need any power management at all, so modify device_set_pm_not_required() to set power.no_callbacks for them too in case runtime PM will be enabled for any of them (which in principle may be done for convenience if such a device participates in a dependency chain). Since device_set_pm_not_required() must be called before device_add() or it would not have any effect, it can update power.no_callbacks without locking, unlike pm_runtime_no_callbacks() that can be called after registering the target device. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: stable Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1950054.tdWV9SEqCh@rafael.j.wysocki Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: Introduce device_link_wait_removal()

2024-04-10T14:28:32+00:00

commit 0462c56c290a99a7f03e817ae5b843116dfb575c upstream. The commit 80dd33cf72d1 ("drivers: base: Fix device link removal") introduces a workqueue to release the consumer and supplier devices used in the devlink. In the job queued, devices are release and in turn, when all the references to these devices are dropped, the release function of the device itself is called. Nothing is present to provide some synchronisation with this workqueue in order to ensure that all ongoing releasing operations are done and so, some other operations can be started safely. For instance, in the following sequence: 1) of_platform_depopulate() 2) of_overlay_remove() During the step 1, devices are released and related devlinks are removed (jobs pushed in the workqueue). During the step 2, OF nodes are destroyed but, without any synchronisation with devlink removal jobs, of_overlay_remove() can raise warnings related to missing of_node_put(): ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 2 Indeed, the missing of_node_put() call is going to be done, too late, from the workqueue job execution. Introduce device_link_wait_removal() to offer a way to synchronize operations waiting for the end of devlink removals (i.e. end of workqueue jobs). Also, as a flushing operation is done on the workqueue, the workqueue used is moved from a system-wide workqueue to a local one. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Herve Codina Tested-by: Luca Ceresoli Reviewed-by: Nuno Sa Reviewed-by: Saravana Kannan Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240325152140.198219-2-herve.codina@bootlin.com Signed-off-by: Rob Herring Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

locking: Introduce __cleanup() based infrastructure

2024-02-23T08:12:51+00:00

commit 54da6a0924311c7cf5015533991e44fb8eb12773 upstream. Use __attribute__((__cleanup__(func))) to build: - simple auto-release pointers using __free() - 'classes' with constructor and destructor semantics for scope-based resource management. - lock guards based on the above classes. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612093537.614161713%40infradead.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: fw_devlink: Add DL_FLAG_CYCLE support to device links

2023-03-10T08:33:37+00:00

[ Upstream commit 67cad5c67019c38126b749621665b6723d3ae7e6 ] fw_devlink uses DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY device link flag for two purposes: 1. To allow a parent device to proxy its child device's dependency on a supplier so that the supplier doesn't get its sync_state() callback before the child device/consumer can be added and probed. In this usage scenario, we need to ignore cycles for ensure correctness of sync_state() callbacks. 2. When there are dependency cycles in firmware, we don't know which of those dependencies are valid. So, we have to ignore them all wrt probe ordering while still making sure the sync_state() callbacks come correctly. However, when detecting dependency cycles, there can be multiple dependency cycles between two devices that we need to detect. For example: A -> B -> A and A -> C -> B -> A. To detect multiple cycles correct, we need to be able to differentiate DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY device links used for (1) vs (2) above. To allow this differentiation, add a DL_FLAG_CYCLE that can be use to mark use case (2). We can then use the DL_FLAG_CYCLE to decide which DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY device links to follow when looking for dependency cycles. Fixes: 2de9d8e0d2fe ("driver core: fw_devlink: Improve handling of cyclic dependencies") Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan Tested-by: Colin Foster Tested-by: Sudeep Holla Tested-by: Douglas Anderson Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Tested-by: Luca Weiss # qcom/sm7225-fairphone-fp4 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230207014207.1678715-6-saravanak@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

driver core: Introduce device_find_any_child() helper

2022-06-10T14:01:55+00:00

There are several places in the kernel where this kind of functionality is being used. Provide a generic helper for such cases. Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220610120219.18988-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'driver-core-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2022-06-03T18:48:47+00:00

Pull driver core updates from Greg KH: "Here is the set of driver core changes for 5.19-rc1. Lots of tiny driver core changes and cleanups happened this cycle, but the two major things are: - firmware_loader reorganization and additions including the ability to have XZ compressed firmware images and the ability for userspace to initiate the firmware load when it needs to, instead of being always initiated by the kernel. FPGA devices specifically want this ability to have their firmware changed over the lifetime of the system boot, and this allows them to work without having to come up with yet-another-custom-uapi interface for loading firmware for them. - physical location support added to sysfs so that devices that know this information, can tell userspace where they are located in a common way. Some ACPI devices already support this today, and more bus types should support this in the future. Smaller changes include: - driver_override api cleanups and fixes - error path cleanups and fixes - get_abi script fixes - deferred probe timeout changes. It's that last change that I'm the most worried about. It has been reported to cause boot problems for a number of systems, and I have a tested patch series that resolves this issue. But I didn't get it merged into my tree before 5.18-final came out, so it has not gotten any linux-next testing. I'll send the fixup patches (there are 2) as a follow-on series to this pull request. All have been tested in linux-next for weeks, with no reported issues other than the above-mentioned boot time-outs" * tag 'driver-core-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (55 commits) driver core: fix deadlock in __device_attach kernfs: Separate kernfs_pr_cont_buf and rename_lock. topology: Remove unused cpu_cluster_mask() driver core: Extend deferred probe timeout on driver registration MAINTAINERS: add Russ Weight as a firmware loader maintainer driver: base: fix UAF when driver_attach failed test_firmware: fix end of loop test in upload_read_show() driver core: location: Add "back" as a possible output for panel driver core: location: Free struct acpi_pld_info *pld driver core: Add "*" wildcard support to driver_async_probe cmdline param driver core: location: Check for allocations failure arch_topology: Trace the update thermal pressure kernfs: Rename kernfs_put_open_node to kernfs_unlink_open_file. export: fix string handling of namespace in EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS rpmsg: use local 'dev' variable rpmsg: Fix calling device_lock() on non-initialized device firmware_loader: describe 'module' parameter of firmware_upload_register() firmware_loader: Move definitions from sysfs_upload.h to sysfs.h firmware_loader: Fix configs for sysfs split selftests: firmware: Add firmware upload selftests ...