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    driver core: Ensure wait_for_device_probe() waits until the deferred_probe_timeout fires · 35a67236
    John Stultz authored
    In commit c8c43cee ("driver core: Fix
    driver_deferred_probe_check_state() logic"), we set the default
    driver_deferred_probe_timeout value to 30 seconds to allow for
    drivers that are missing dependencies to have some time so that
    the dependency may be loaded from userland after initcalls_done
    is set.
    
    However, Yoshihiro Shimoda reported that on his device that
    expects to have unmet dependencies (due to "optional links" in
    its devicetree), was failing to mount the NFS root.
    
    In digging further, it seemed the problem was that while the
    device properly probes after waiting 30 seconds for any missing
    modules to load, the ip_auto_config() had already failed,
    resulting in NFS to fail. This was due to ip_auto_config()
    calling wait_for_device_probe() which doesn't wait for the
    driver_deferred_probe_timeout to fire.
    
    This patch tries to fix the issue by creating a waitqueue
    for the driver_deferred_probe_timeout, and calling wait_event()
    to make sure driver_deferred_probe_timeout is zero in
    wait_for_device_probe() to make sure all the probing is
    finished.
    
    The downside to this solution is that kernel functionality that
    uses wait_for_device_probe(), will block until the
    driver_deferred_probe_timeout fires, regardless of if there is
    any missing dependencies.
    
    However, the previous patch reverts the default timeout value to
    zero, so this side-effect will only affect users who specify a
    driver_deferred_probe_timeout= value as a boot argument, where
    the additional delay would be beneficial to allow modules to
    load later during boot.
    
    Thanks to Geert for chasing down that ip_auto_config was why NFS
    was failing in this case!
    
    Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
    Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
    Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
    Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
    Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
    Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
    Cc: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>
    Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
    Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
    Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
    Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
    Cc: Basil Eljuse <Basil.Eljuse@arm.com>
    Cc: Ferry Toth <fntoth@gmail.com>
    Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Cc: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
    Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
    Reported-by: default avatarYoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
    Tested-by: default avatarYoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>
    Fixes: c8c43cee ("driver core: Fix driver_deferred_probe_check_state() logic")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200422203245.83244-4-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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