[PATCH v3 04/10] i2c: core: fix adapter probe deferral loop

From: Johan Hovold

Date: Mon May 11 2026 - 10:45:21 EST


Drivers must not probe defer after having registered devices as that
will trigger a probe loop if the devices bind to a driver (cf. commit
fbc35b45f9f6 ("Add documentation on meaning of -EPROBE_DEFER")).

Move the recovery initialisation, where the GPIO lookup may fail, before
registering the adapter to prevent this.

Fixes: 75820314de26 ("i2c: core: add generic I2C GPIO recovery")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.9
Cc: Codrin Ciubotariu <codrin.ciubotariu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
index fa9db415e219..1caaa3b3ee10 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
@@ -1562,6 +1562,10 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
adap->dev.type = &i2c_adapter_type;
device_initialize(&adap->dev);

+ res = i2c_init_recovery(adap);
+ if (res == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+ goto err_put_adap;
+
/*
* This adapter can be used as a parent immediately after device_add(),
* setup runtime-pm (especially ignore-children) before hand.
@@ -1583,10 +1587,6 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
if (res)
goto out_reg;

- res = i2c_init_recovery(adap);
- if (res == -EPROBE_DEFER)
- goto out_reg;
-
dev_dbg(&adap->dev, "adapter [%s] registered\n", adap->name);

/* create pre-declared device nodes */
--
2.53.0