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: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220526034609.480766-2-saravanak@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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