[PATCH v4 1/4] remoteproc: core: Move cdev add before device add

Siddharth Gupta
2021-06-15T19:04:04Z

When cdev_add is called after device_add has been called there is no
way for the userspace to know about the addition of a cdev as cdev_add
itself doesn't trigger a uevent notification, or for the kernel to
know about the change to devt. This results in two problems:
- mknod is never called for the cdev and hence no cdev appears on
devtmpfs.
- sysfs links to the new cdev are not established.

The cdev needs to be added and devt assigned before device_add() is
called in order for the relevant sysfs and devtmpfs entries to be
created and the uevent to be properly populated.

Signed-off-by: Siddharth Gupta <sidgup@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
index 6348aaa..9ad8c5f 100644
--- a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
+++ b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
@@ -2333,6 +2333,11 @@ int rproc_add(struct rproc *rproc)
struct device *dev = &rproc->dev;
int ret;

+ /* add char device for this remoteproc */
+ ret = rproc_char_device_add(rproc);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
+
ret = device_add(dev);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
@@ -2346,11 +2351,6 @@ int rproc_add(struct rproc *rproc)
/* create debugfs entries */
rproc_create_debug_dir(rproc);

- /* add char device for this remoteproc */
- ret = rproc_char_device_add(rproc);
- if (ret < 0)
- return ret;
-
/* if rproc is marked always-on, request it to boot */
if (rproc->auto_boot) {
ret = rproc_trigger_auto_boot(rproc);