linux-kernel - [PATCH v1] driver core: Ignore driver_async_probe cmdline param for module drivers

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Date:   Wed, 22 Jun 2022 21:21:50 -0700
From:   Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v1] driver core: Ignore driver_async_probe cmdline param for
 module drivers

If the module's async_probe option isn't set, the module loading code
will do a async_synchronize_full() before returning to userspace. This
effectively negates any benefits of driver_async_probe listing the
module's driver.

If the module's async_probe is set, then we already do async probe for
that module's driver even if driver_async_probe does not list that
driver. So, again, the driver_async_probe's value doesn't matter for a
module's driver.

So this change ignores the driver_async_probe for module drivers to
avoid useless async probes.

In addition, if driver_async_probe lists a module's driver and the
driver's async probe ends up calling request_module() in the async
thread context, that's going to trigger a spurious WARNING stack dump
without any real benefits of async probing. So this will avoid that
unnecessary warning in that situation.

Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
---
 drivers/base/dd.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
index e600dd2afc35..f1ac28a4ce62 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dd.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
@@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ bool driver_allows_async_probing(struct device_driver *drv)
 		return false;

 	default:
-		if (cmdline_requested_async_probing(drv->name))
+		if (cmdline_requested_async_probing(drv->name) && drv->owner == NULL)
 			return true;

 		if (module_requested_async_probing(drv->owner))
-- 
2.37.0.rc0.161.g10f37bed90-goog