Hello Jarkko,
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 06:34:47PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 08:01:34PM +0100, martin.wi...@ts.fujitsu.com wrote:
> > From: Martin Wilck <martin.wi...@ts.fujitsu.com>
> >
> > Since b8b2c7d845d5, platform_drv_probe() is called for all platform
> > devices. If drv->probe is NULL, and dev_pm_domain_attach() fails,
> > platform_drv_probe() will return the error code from dev_pm_domain_attach().
> >
> > This causes real_probe() to enter the "probe_failed" path and set
> > dev->driver to NULL. Before b8b2c7d845d5, real_probe() would assume
> > success if both dev->bus->probe and drv->probe are missing.
> >
> > This may cause a panic later. For example, inserting the tpm_tis
> > driver with parameter "force=1" (i.e. registering tpm_tis as a platform
> > driver) will panic in tpmm_chip_alloc() because dev->driver is NULL:
> >
> > chip->cdev.owner = chip->pdev->driver->owner;
> >
> > This patch fixes this by returning success in platform_drv_probe() if
> > "just" dev_pm_domain_attach() had failed. This restores the semantics
> > of platform_device_register_XXX() if the associated platform driver has
> > no "probe" function.
> >
> > Fixes: b8b2c7d845d5 ("base/platform: assert that dev_pm_domain
> > callbacks are called unconditionally")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <martin.wi...@ts.fujitsu.com>
>
> Acked-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakki...@linux.intel.com>
While the patch is fine, the commit log is not. It blames b8b2c7d845d5
to be responsible for a panic, but in fact it only breaks the wrong
assumption of the tpm_tis driver.
So I'm not sure how to interpret your Ack, IMHO it should not make
gregkh pick up the patch as is.
Best regards
Uwe
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