SYNC_STATE_ONLY device links only affect the behavior of sync_state() callbacks. Specifically, they prevent sync_state() only callbacks from being called on a device if one or more of its consumers haven't probed. So, creating a SYNC_STATE_ONLY device link from an already probed consumer is useless. So, don't allow creating such device links. Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/base/core.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index e2b246a44d1a..215ce9e72790 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -649,6 +649,17 @@ struct device_link *device_link_add(struct device *consumer, goto out; } + /* + * SYNC_STATE_ONLY links are useless once a consumer device has probed. + * So, only create it if the consumer hasn't probed yet. + */ + if (flags & DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY && + consumer->links.status != DL_DEV_NO_DRIVER && + consumer->links.status != DL_DEV_PROBING) { + link = NULL; + goto out; + } + /* * DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_SUPPLIER indicates that the link will be needed * longer than for DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER and setting them both -- 2.29.2.454.gaff20da3a2-goog