[PATCH 5.2 020/124] net: dsa: Fix load order between DSA drivers and taggers

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Sep 19 2019 - 18:36:19 EST


From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 23426a25e55a417dc104df08781b6eff95e65f3f ]

The DSA core, DSA taggers and DSA drivers all make use of
module_init(). Hence they get initialised at device_initcall() time.
The ordering is non-deterministic. It can be a DSA driver is bound to
a device before the needed tag driver has been initialised, resulting
in the message:

No tagger for this switch

Rather than have this be fatal, return -EPROBE_DEFER so that it is
tried again later once all the needed drivers have been loaded.

Fixes: d3b8c04988ca ("dsa: Add boilerplate helper to register DSA tag driver modules")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/dsa/dsa2.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/net/dsa/dsa2.c
+++ b/net/dsa/dsa2.c
@@ -577,6 +577,8 @@ static int dsa_port_parse_cpu(struct dsa
tag_protocol = ds->ops->get_tag_protocol(ds, dp->index);
tag_ops = dsa_tag_driver_get(tag_protocol);
if (IS_ERR(tag_ops)) {
+ if (PTR_ERR(tag_ops) == -ENOPROTOOPT)
+ return -EPROBE_DEFER;
dev_warn(ds->dev, "No tagger for this switch\n");
return PTR_ERR(tag_ops);
}