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    Revert "base: dd: don't remove driver_data in -EPROBE_DEFER case" · c6e360a0
    Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
    This reverts commit ded9db38.
    
    Thierry Reding writes:
    	This causes a boot regression on at least one board, caused by
    	one of the drivers looking at driver data to check whether or
    	not the driver has properly loaded. If the code encounters a
    	non-NULL pointer it tries to dereference it, but because it's
    	already been freed there is no memory backing it and things
    	crash.
    
    	I don't think keeping stale pointers around is a good idea. The
    	whole point of setting this to NULL in the core is so that probe
    	failures result in the same starting conditions no matter what.
    
    	Can we please get this reverted?
    Reported-by: default avatarThierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
    Cc: Yi Zhang <yizhang_hust@163.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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