From d06d0b3cf6260ef7c70680978f3868607b504e62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ahmad Fatoum Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 12:04:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] driver core: clear deferred probe reason on probe retry commit f0acf637d60ffcef3ccb6e279f743e587b3c7359 upstream. When retrying a deferred probe, any old defer reason string should be discarded. Otherwise, if the probe is deferred again at a different spot, but without setting a message, the now incorrect probe reason will remain. This was observed with the i.MX I2C driver, which ultimately failed to probe due to lack of the GPIO driver. The probe defer for GPIO doesn't record a message, but a previous probe defer to clock_get did. This had the effect that /sys/kernel/debug/devices_deferred listed a misleading probe deferral reason. Cc: stable Fixes: d090b70ede02 ("driver core: add deferring probe reason to devices_deferred property") Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko Reviewed-by: Andrzej Hajda Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210319110459.19966-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/base/dd.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c index 3c94ebc8d4bb..43130d64e213 100644 --- a/drivers/base/dd.c +++ b/drivers/base/dd.c @@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ static void deferred_probe_work_func(struct work_struct *work) get_device(dev); + kfree(dev->p->deferred_probe_reason); + dev->p->deferred_probe_reason = NULL; + /* * Drop the mutex while probing each device; the probe path may * manipulate the deferred list -- 2.17.1