linux-kernel - [driver-core PATCH v5 4/9] driver core: Move async_synchronize

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Date:   Mon, 05 Nov 2018 13:11:59 -0800
From:   Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, tj@...nel.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.com, rafael@...nel.org, len.brown@...el.com,
        pavel@....cz, zwisler@...nel.org, dan.j.williams@...el.com,
        dave.jiang@...el.com, bvanassche@....org,
        alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com
Subject: [driver-core PATCH v5 4/9] driver core: Move async_synchronize_full
 call

This patch moves the async_synchronize_full call out of
__device_release_driver and into driver_detach.

The idea behind this is that the async_synchronize_full call will only
guarantee that any existing async operations are flushed. This doesn't do
anything to guarantee that a hotplug event that may occur while we are
doing the release of the driver will not be asynchronously scheduled.

By moving this into the driver_detach path we can avoid potential deadlocks
as we aren't holding the device lock at this point and we should not have
the driver we want to flush loaded so the flush will take care of any
asynchronous events the driver we are detaching might have scheduled.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>
---
 drivers/base/dd.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
index 76c40fe69463..e74cefeb5b69 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dd.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
@@ -975,9 +975,6 @@ static void __device_release_driver(struct device *dev, struct device *parent)

 	drv = dev->driver;
 	if (drv) {
-		if (driver_allows_async_probing(drv))
-			async_synchronize_full();
-
 		while (device_links_busy(dev)) {
 			__device_driver_unlock(dev, parent);

@@ -1087,6 +1084,9 @@ void driver_detach(struct device_driver *drv)
 	struct device_private *dev_prv;
 	struct device *dev;

+	if (driver_allows_async_probing(drv))
+		async_synchronize_full();
+
 	for (;;) {
 		spin_lock(&drv->p->klist_devices.k_lock);
 		if (list_empty(&drv->p->klist_devices.k_list)) {