This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
RDMA/erdma: Defer probing if netdevice can not be found
to the 6.2-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
rdma-erdma-defer-probing-if-netdevice-can-not-be-fou.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.2 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit b8699612b80eae29d565792615faac6881c89a5b
Author: Cheng Xu <chengyou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Mar 20 16:46:52 2023 +0800
RDMA/erdma: Defer probing if netdevice can not be found
[ Upstream commit 6bd1bca858f1734a75572a788213d1e1143f2f0a ]
ERDMA device may be probed before its associated netdevice, returning
-EPROBE_DEFER allows OS try to probe erdma device later.
Fixes: d55e6fb4803c ("RDMA/erdma: Add the erdma module")
Signed-off-by: Cheng Xu <chengyou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230320084652.16807-5-chengyou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/erdma/erdma_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/erdma/erdma_main.c
index 5dc31e5df5cba..4a29a53a6652e 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/erdma/erdma_main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/erdma/erdma_main.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static int erdma_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long event,
static int erdma_enum_and_get_netdev(struct erdma_dev *dev)
{
struct net_device *netdev;
- int ret = -ENODEV;
+ int ret = -EPROBE_DEFER;
/* Already binded to a net_device, so we skip. */
if (dev->netdev)
