* [PATCH] driver core: take parent lock on deferred probe
@ 2026-10-13 14:06 Johan Hovold
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From: Johan Hovold @ 2026-10-13 14:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Rafael J. Wysocki, Danilo Krummrich,
Johan Hovold
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov, Alan Stern, driver-core, linux-usb, linux-kernel,
Mario Peter, stable
USB interfaces should be probed with the parent USB device lock held,
but this is not honoured when probe is deferred.
Add a new bus_probe_device_deferred() helper to handle deferred probe
where the parent device lock is not held.
Fixes: d1c3414c2a9d ("drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism")
Reported-by: Mario Peter <mario.peter@leica-geosystems.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20261007131514.1260696-1-mario.peter@leica-geosystems.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.4
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
drivers/base/base.h | 1 +
drivers/base/bus.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++-------
drivers/base/dd.c | 7 ++++---
3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/base.h b/drivers/base/base.h
index a5b7abc10ff0..3c36a2128f88 100644
--- a/drivers/base/base.h
+++ b/drivers/base/base.h
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ struct kobject *virtual_device_parent(void);
int bus_add_device(struct device *dev);
void bus_probe_device(struct device *dev);
+void bus_probe_device_deferred(struct device *dev);
void bus_remove_device(struct device *dev);
void bus_notify(struct device *dev, enum bus_notifier_event value);
bool bus_is_registered(const struct bus_type *bus);
diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
index c51ad96d4de4..fd62594eb6f9 100644
--- a/drivers/base/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
@@ -606,13 +606,7 @@ int bus_add_device(struct device *dev)
return error;
}
-/**
- * bus_probe_device - probe drivers for a new device
- * @dev: device to probe
- *
- * - Automatically probe for a driver if the bus allows it.
- */
-void bus_probe_device(struct device *dev)
+static void __bus_probe_device(struct device *dev)
{
struct subsys_private *sp = bus_to_subsys(dev->bus);
struct subsys_interface *sif;
@@ -630,6 +624,26 @@ void bus_probe_device(struct device *dev)
subsys_put(sp);
}
+/**
+ * bus_probe_device - probe drivers for a new device
+ * @dev: device to probe
+ *
+ * - Automatically probe for a driver if the bus allows it.
+ */
+void bus_probe_device(struct device *dev)
+{
+ __bus_probe_device(dev);
+}
+
+void bus_probe_device_deferred(struct device *dev)
+{
+ if (dev->parent && dev->bus->need_parent_lock)
+ device_lock(dev->parent);
+ __bus_probe_device(dev);
+ if (dev->parent && dev->bus->need_parent_lock)
+ device_unlock(dev->parent);
+}
+
/**
* bus_remove_device - remove device from bus
* @dev: device to be removed
diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
index 9dc7cce9bd8d..87962f4e914c 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dd.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
@@ -86,8 +86,9 @@ static void deferred_probe_work_func(struct work_struct *work)
/*
* This block processes every device in the deferred 'active' list.
* Each device is removed from the active list and passed to
- * bus_probe_device() to re-attempt the probe. The loop continues
- * until every device in the active list is removed and retried.
+ * bus_probe_device_deferred() to re-attempt the probe. The loop
+ * continues until every device in the active list is removed and
+ * retried.
*
* Note: Once the device is removed from the list and the mutex is
* released, it is possible for the device get freed by another thread
@@ -121,7 +122,7 @@ static void deferred_probe_work_func(struct work_struct *work)
device_pm_move_to_tail(dev);
dev_dbg(dev, "Retrying from deferred list\n");
- bus_probe_device(dev);
+ bus_probe_device_deferred(dev);
mutex_lock(&deferred_probe_mutex);
put_device(dev);
--
2.55.0
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