This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

driver core: clear deferred probe reason on probe retry

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.

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From: Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum@pengutronix.de Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 12:04:57 +0100 Subject: driver core: clear deferred probe reason on probe retry

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 stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: d090b70ede02 ("driver core: add deferring probe reason to devices_deferred property") Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Andrzej Hajda a.hajda@samsung.com Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum@pengutronix.de Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210319110459.19966-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/base/dd.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c index 9179825ff646..e2cf3b29123e 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