Re: [PATCH 5/5] mmc: cavium: Fix probing race with regulator

[Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>]

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 4:39 AM, Jan Glauber
<jan.glauber@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 03:41:12PM +0200, Jan Glauber wrote:
>> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 09:37:48AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>> > On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Jan Glauber
>> > <jan.glauber@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
>> > > On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 08:07:50AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>> > >> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 4:36 AM, Jan Glauber <jglauber@cavium.com> wrote:
>> > >> > If the regulator probing is not yet finished this driver
>> > >> > might catch a -EPROBE_DEFER. Returning after this condition
>> > >> > did not remove the created platform device. On a repeated
>> > >> > call to the probe function the of_platform_device_create
>> > >> > fails.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Calling of_platform_device_destroy after EPROBE_DEFER resolves
>> > >> > this bug.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jglauber@cavium.com>
>> > >> > ---
>> > >> >  drivers/mmc/host/cavium-thunderx.c | 4 +++-
>> > >> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> > >> >
>> > >> > diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/cavium-thunderx.c b/drivers/mmc/host/cavium-thunderx.c
>> > >> > index fe3d772..257535e 100644
>> > >> > --- a/drivers/mmc/host/cavium-thunderx.c
>> > >> > +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/cavium-thunderx.c
>> > >> > @@ -137,8 +137,10 @@ static int thunder_mmc_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
>> > >> >                                 continue;
>> > >> >
>> > >> >                         ret = cvm_mmc_of_slot_probe(&host->slot_pdev[i]->dev, host);
>> > >> > -                       if (ret)
>> > >> > +                       if (ret) {
>> > >> > +                               of_platform_device_destroy(&host->slot_pdev[i]->dev, NULL);
>> > >>
>> > >> What if this fails after the 1st iteration of the loop. It's only
>> > >> cleaning up the current device.
>> > >
>> > > The platform device is just a dummy device created directly before
>> > > cvm_mmc_of_slot_probe(). So there is no need to cleanup anything else.
>> >
>> > So if you have 2 slots, the first slot probes successfully and the 2nd
>> > slot defers, then you only need to clean-up the 2nd device/slot? Looks
>> > to me like you are leaking the 1st device you alloc.
>>
>> OK, got it now. My assumption was that your scenario can't happen in
>> reality with EPROBE_DEFER.
>>
>> > >
>> > > As far as I've seen it the platform code 'tags' the nodes it already
>> > > used, but I need the same node to be parsed again on -EPROBE_DEFER.
>> > >
>> > >> Use devm_of_platform_populate or
>> > >> of_platform_populate/of_platform_depopulate instead.
>> > >
>> > > I'm not sure one of these will work here.
>> >
>> > Those functions loop over child nodes and create devices. You are
>> > doing the same thing. You'd just need to create all the devices first
>> > and then probe them all.
>>
>> I'll take a look at devm_of_platform_populate then. If I can use it it
>> will solve the leak issue.
>
> Using [devm_]of_platform_populate/of_platform_depopulate would require
> a platform driver with its prove/remove functions. I don't think this
> would make the driver easier to read as we would then have a platform driver
> within a pci driver.

How is that? of_platform_populate ultimately just calls
of_platform_device_create.

> If it is possible to export the of_platform_device_destroy() I would
> prefer to fix the leak and stay with of_platform_device_create.

In any case, we can just export it.

Rob