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authorChristoph Hellwig <[email protected]>2021-06-17 16:22:12 +0200
committerAlex Williamson <[email protected]>2021-06-21 15:29:24 -0600
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treebb4f4fb0bed56dda7e93aa113e10b1f8922e5175 /scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py
parentef6dcbdd8eb2f44dce70a3abecc32d43cc5f3e64 (diff)
driver core: Don't return EPROBE_DEFER to userspace during sysfs bind
EPROBE_DEFER is an internal kernel error code and it should not be leaked to userspace via the bind_store() sysfs. Userspace doesn't have this constant and cannot understand it. Further, it doesn't really make sense to have userspace trigger a deferred probe via bind_store(), which could eventually succeed, while simultaneously returning an error back. Resolve this by splitting driver_probe_device so that the version used by the sysfs binding that turns EPROBE_DEFER into -EAGAIN, while the one used for internally binding keeps the error code, and calls driver_deferred_probe_add where needed. This also allows to nicely split out the defer_all_probes / probe_count checks so that they actually allow for full device_{block,unblock}_probing protection while not bothering the sysfs bind case. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <[email protected]>
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