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Commit 5ee76c25 authored by Saravana Kannan's avatar Saravana Kannan Committed by Linus Torvalds
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driver core: Fix wait_for_device_probe() & deferred_probe_timeout interaction

Mounting NFS rootfs was timing out when deferred_probe_timeout was
non-zero [1].  This was because ip_auto_config() initcall times out
waiting for the network interfaces to show up when
deferred_probe_timeout was non-zero. While ip_auto_config() calls
wait_for_device_probe() to make sure any currently running deferred
probe work or asynchronous probe finishes, that wasn't sufficient to
account for devices being deferred until deferred_probe_timeout.

Commit 35a67236 ("driver core: Ensure wait_for_device_probe() waits
until the deferred_probe_timeout fires") tried to fix that by making
sure wait_for_device_probe() waits for deferred_probe_timeout to expire
before returning.

However, if wait_for_device_probe() is called from the kernel_init()
context:

- Before deferred_probe_initcall() [2], it causes the boot process to
  hang due to a deadlock.

- After deferred_probe_initcall() [3], it blocks kernel_init() from
  continuing till deferred_probe_timeout expires and beats the point of
  deferred_probe_timeout that's trying to wait for userspace to load
  modules.

Neither of this is good. So revert the changes to
wait_for_device_probe().

[1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/TYAPR01MB45443DF63B9EF29054F7C41FD8C60@TYAPR01MB4544.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com/
[2] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YowHNo4sBjr9ijZr@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/
[3] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Yo3WvGnNk3LvLb7R@linutronix.de/



Fixes: 35a67236 ("driver core: Ensure wait_for_device_probe() waits until the deferred_probe_timeout fires")
Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>
Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Cc: Basil Eljuse <Basil.Eljuse@arm.com>
Cc: Ferry Toth <fntoth@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSaravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220526034609.480766-2-saravanak@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 500a434f
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