driver core: clear deferred probe reason on probe retry
authorAhmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 11:04:57 +0000 (12:04 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 7 Apr 2021 13:00:13 +0000 (15:00 +0200)
commitd06d0b3cf6260ef7c70680978f3868607b504e62
treeb17528b72c2bc883d6748aa3fba90f86751401ac
parentd29c38dd926d5aba65d177c0b99381ea632ff0a0
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 <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