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Revert "base: dd: don't remove driver_data in -EPROBE_DEFER case"
authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 3 May 2016 15:06:06 +0000 (08:06 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 3 May 2016 15:06:06 +0000 (08:06 -0700)
commit280608c88caf3fdf1cdd4f2d102c4feb42baca4b
tree456fa050698cb190002244a43f5cd9ec2582a29e
parentc805a495bb8364836e847c812ecc94abbb91f140
Revert "base: dd: don't remove driver_data in -EPROBE_DEFER case"

This reverts commit 8e9a4082677124b7aabdf301022fbc61cabe1a67.

Thierry Reding writes:
This causes a boot regression on at least one board, caused by
one of the drivers looking at driver data to check whether or
not the driver has properly loaded. If the code encounters a
non-NULL pointer it tries to dereference it, but because it's
already been freed there is no memory backing it and things
crash.

I don't think keeping stale pointers around is a good idea. The
whole point of setting this to NULL in the core is so that probe
failures result in the same starting conditions no matter what.

Can we please get this reverted?

Reported-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: Yi Zhang <yizhang_hust@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/base/dd.c