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driver core: Establish order of operations for device_add and device_del via bitflag
authorAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 18:39:10 +0000 (10:39 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 13:20:53 +0000 (14:20 +0100)
commit3451a495ef244a88ed6317a035299d835554d579
treee35d679a4caec70f62f0c6bd6e638162ffc25d05
parent0fe6f7874d467456da6f6a221dd92499a3ab1780
driver core: Establish order of operations for device_add and device_del via bitflag

Add an additional bit flag to the device_private struct named "dead".

This additional flag provides a guarantee that when a device_del is
executed on a given interface an async worker will not attempt to attach
the driver following the earlier device_del call. Previously this
guarantee was not present and could result in the device_del call
attempting to remove a driver from an interface only to have the async
worker attempt to probe the driver later when it finally completes the
asynchronous probe call.

One additional change added was that I pulled the check for dev->driver
out of the __device_attach_driver call and instead placed it in the
__device_attach_async_helper call. This was motivated by the fact that the
only other caller of this, __device_attach, had already taken the
device_lock() and checked for dev->driver. Instead of testing for this
twice in this path it makes more sense to just consolidate the dev->dead
and dev->driver checks together into one set of checks.

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/base/base.h
drivers/base/core.c
drivers/base/dd.c