Re: [PATCH] base: dd: don't remove driver_data in -EPROBE_DEFER case

[Thierry Reding]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 11:15:22PM +0800, Yi Zhang wrote:
> the driver_data may be used for sanity check, it fails the
> probe() if driver_data is NULL after it is re-triggered.
> for example, soc_probe() in sound/soc/soc-core.c
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yi Zhang <yizhang_hust@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/base/dd.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Hi Greg,

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?

Cc'ing linux-tegra for visibility since that's where the boot regression
is observed.

Thierry

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