On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 10:34:19PM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:

> ======================================================
> WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
> 5.11.0-rc1-00008-geaa7995c529b #10095 Not tainted
> ------------------------------------------------------
> swapper/0/1 is trying to acquire lock:
> c12e1b80 (regulator_list_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: 
> regulator_lock_dependent+0x4c/0x2b0

If you're sending backtraces or other enormous reports like this please
run them through addr2line first so that things are a bit more leigible.

> but task is already holding lock:
> df7190c0 (regulator_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: 
> regulator_resolve_supply+0x44/0x318
> 
> which lock already depends on the new lock.

Does this help (completely untested):

diff --git a/drivers/regulator/core.c b/drivers/regulator/core.c
index 3ae5ccd9277d..7d1422b00974 100644
--- a/drivers/regulator/core.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c
@@ -1823,17 +1823,6 @@ static int regulator_resolve_supply(struct regulator_dev *rdev)
 	if (rdev->supply)
 		return 0;
 
-	/*
-	 * Recheck rdev->supply with rdev->mutex lock held to avoid a race
-	 * between rdev->supply null check and setting rdev->supply in
-	 * set_supply() from concurrent tasks.
-	 */
-	regulator_lock(rdev);
-
-	/* Supply just resolved by a concurrent task? */
-	if (rdev->supply)
-		goto out;
-
 	r = regulator_dev_lookup(dev, rdev->supply_name);
 	if (IS_ERR(r)) {
 		ret = PTR_ERR(r);
@@ -1885,10 +1874,23 @@ static int regulator_resolve_supply(struct regulator_dev *rdev)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Recheck rdev->supply with rdev->mutex lock held to avoid a race
+	 * between rdev->supply null check and setting rdev->supply in
+	 * set_supply() from concurrent tasks.
+	 */
+	regulator_lock(rdev);
+
+	/* Supply just resolved by a concurrent task? */
+	if (rdev->supply) {
+		put_device(&r->dev);
+		goto out_rdev_lock;
+	}
+
 	ret = set_supply(rdev, r);
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		put_device(&r->dev);
-		goto out;
+		goto out_rdev_lock;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -1901,12 +1903,13 @@ static int regulator_resolve_supply(struct regulator_dev *rdev)
 		if (ret < 0) {
 			_regulator_put(rdev->supply);
 			rdev->supply = NULL;
-			goto out;
+			goto out_rdev_lock;
 		}
 	}
 
-out:
+out_rdev_lock:
 	regulator_unlock(rdev);
+out:
 	return ret;
 }