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[3/3] __device_release_driver(): Do not wait for asynchronous probing

Message ID 20181002215223.20453-4-bvanassche@acm.org (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series sd: Rely on the driver core for asynchronous probing | expand

Commit Message

Bart Van Assche Oct. 2, 2018, 9:52 p.m. UTC
Since __device_release_driver() is called with the device lock held
and since the same device lock is obtained by the functions that
perform asynchronous probing (driver_attach_async() and
__device_attach_async_helper()), asynchronous probing is already
serialized against __device_release_driver(). Remove the
async_synchronize_full() call from __device_release_driver() to
avoid that a deadlock is triggered.

See also commit 765230b5f084 ("driver-core: add asynchronous probing
support for drivers").

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/base/dd.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Dmitry Torokhov Oct. 15, 2018, 10:52 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 02:52:23PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Since __device_release_driver() is called with the device lock held
> and since the same device lock is obtained by the functions that
> perform asynchronous probing (driver_attach_async() and
> __device_attach_async_helper()), asynchronous probing is already
> serialized against __device_release_driver(). Remove the
> async_synchronize_full() call from __device_release_driver() to
> avoid that a deadlock is triggered.

Hmm, I see. Well, the idea was to let all outstanding async probes
(scheduled but not yet running) to complete before releasing the driver.
I am not sure if anyone actually needs this behavior and implementing it
in deadlock free way is nigh impossible, so

Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

> 
> See also commit 765230b5f084 ("driver-core: add asynchronous probing
> support for drivers").

Should probably be "Fixes: 765230b5f084 ..."

> 
> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
> Cc: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
> Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
> Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  drivers/base/dd.c | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
> index edfc9f0b1180..d6520de659bd 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/dd.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
> @@ -926,9 +926,6 @@ static void __device_release_driver(struct device *dev, struct device *parent)
>  
>  	drv = dev->driver;
>  	if (drv) {
> -		if (driver_allows_async_probing(drv))
> -			async_synchronize_full();
> -
>  		while (device_links_busy(dev)) {
>  			device_unlock(dev);
>  			if (parent)
> -- 
> 2.19.0.605.g01d371f741-goog
> 

Thanks.
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diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
index edfc9f0b1180..d6520de659bd 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dd.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
@@ -926,9 +926,6 @@  static void __device_release_driver(struct device *dev, struct device *parent)
 
 	drv = dev->driver;
 	if (drv) {
-		if (driver_allows_async_probing(drv))
-			async_synchronize_full();
-
 		while (device_links_busy(dev)) {
 			device_unlock(dev);
 			if (parent)