This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
base/platform: Fix platform drivers with no probe callback
to my driver-core git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git
in the driver-core-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 25cad69f21f5532d99e2ee73c8ab6512bcab614c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Wilck <Martin.Wilck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:50:05 +0100
Subject: base/platform: Fix platform drivers with no probe callback
Since b8b2c7d845d5, platform_drv_probe() is called for all platform
devices. If drv->probe is NULL, and dev_pm_domain_attach() fails,
platform_drv_probe() will return the error code from dev_pm_domain_attach().
This causes real_probe() to enter the "probe_failed" path and set
dev->driver to NULL. Before b8b2c7d845d5, real_probe() would assume
success if both dev->bus->probe and drv->probe were missing. As a result,
a device and driver could be "bound" together just by matching their names;
this doesn't work any more after b8b2c7d845d5.
This may cause problems later for certain usage of platform_driver_register()
and platform_device_register_simple(). I observed a panic while loading
the tpm_tis driver with parameter "force=1" (i.e. registering tpm_tis as
a platform driver), because tpm_tis_init's assumption that the device
returned by platform_device_register_simple() was bound didn't hold any more
(tpmm_chip_alloc() dereferences chip->pdev->driver, causing panic).
This patch restores the previous (4.3.0 and earlier) behavior of
platform_drv_probe() in the case when the associated platform driver has
no "probe" function.
Fixes: b8b2c7d845d5 ("base/platform: assert that dev_pm_domain callbacks are called unconditionally")
Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <Martin.Wilck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.4
Cc: Martin Fuzzey <mfuzzey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/platform.c | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
index 73d6e5d39e33..f437afa17f2b 100644
--- a/drivers/base/platform.c
+++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
@@ -558,10 +558,15 @@ static int platform_drv_probe(struct device *_dev)
return ret;
ret = dev_pm_domain_attach(_dev, true);
- if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER && drv->probe) {
- ret = drv->probe(dev);
- if (ret)
- dev_pm_domain_detach(_dev, true);
+ if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER) {
+ if (drv->probe) {
+ ret = drv->probe(dev);
+ if (ret)
+ dev_pm_domain_detach(_dev, true);
+ } else {
+ /* don't fail if just dev_pm_domain_attach failed */
+ ret = 0;
+ }
}
if (drv->prevent_deferred_probe && ret == -EPROBE_DEFER) {
--
2.7.0
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