Re: [PATCH v4 1/9] driver core: add a faux bus for use when a simple device/bus is needed

Kurt Borja
2025-02-11T07:43:24Z

On Tue Feb 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM -05, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 08:27:26AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 12:56:46PM -0500, Kurt Borja wrote:
>> I'll work on adding "if probe failed, don't let the device be created"
>> logic as it's a simple change, BUT it is a functionally different change
>> from what the current api that this code is replacing is doing (i.e. the
>> current platform device creation code does this today and no one has
>> ever hit this in their use of it in the past few decades.)
>
> How about something as simple as this change, does that provide what you
> are thinking about here? Only compile tested, not runtime tested at
> all:

Yes, LGTM. However dev->driver is set to NULL if the probe fails so
wouldn't

if (!dev->driver)

do the job?

I understand your point about groups. This of course solves it, although
isn't there a small windows between device_add() and device_destroy() in
the failed probe path, in which a show/store/visibility method could
dereference a NULL drvdata?

--
~ Kurt

>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/faux.c b/drivers/base/faux.c
> index 531e9d789ee0..e2de0697c0e3 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/faux.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/faux.c
> @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
> struct faux_object {
> struct faux_device faux_dev;
> const struct faux_device_ops *faux_ops;
> + bool probe_was_successful;
> };
> #define to_faux_object(dev) container_of_const(dev, struct faux_object, faux_dev.dev)
>
> @@ -48,6 +49,9 @@ static int faux_probe(struct device *dev)
> if (faux_ops && faux_ops->probe)
> ret = faux_ops->probe(faux_dev);
>
> + if (!ret)
> + faux_obj->probe_was_successful = true;
> +
> return ret;
> }
>
> @@ -147,6 +151,15 @@ struct faux_device *faux_device_create_with_groups(const char *name,
> return NULL;
> }
>
> + /*
> + * The probe callback will set probe_was_successful if it
> + * succeeded, if not, then we need to tear things down here
> + */
> + if (!faux_obj->probe_was_successful) {
> + faux_device_destroy(faux_dev);
> + return NULL;
> + }
> +
> return faux_dev;
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(faux_device_create_with_groups);