of: fix race when matching drivers
authorMilton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Wed, 18 May 2011 15:27:39 +0000 (10:27 -0500)
committerGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Wed, 18 May 2011 16:19:36 +0000 (10:19 -0600)
If two drivers are probing devices at the same time, both will write
their match table result to the dev->of_match cache at the same time.

Only write the result if the device matches.

In a thread titled "SBus devices sometimes detected, sometimes not",
Meelis reported his SBus hme was not detected about 50% of the time.
From the debug suggested by Grant it was obvious another driver matched
some devices between the call to match the hme and the hme discovery
failling.

Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
[grant.likely: modified to only call of_match_device() once]
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
include/linux/of_device.h

index 8bfe6c1..b33d688 100644 (file)
@@ -21,8 +21,12 @@ extern void of_device_make_bus_id(struct device *dev);
 static inline int of_driver_match_device(struct device *dev,
                                         const struct device_driver *drv)
 {
-       dev->of_match = of_match_device(drv->of_match_table, dev);
-       return dev->of_match != NULL;
+       const struct of_device_id *match;
+
+       match = of_match_device(drv->of_match_table, dev);
+       if (match)
+               dev->of_match = match;
+       return match != NULL;
 }
 
 extern struct platform_device *of_dev_get(struct platform_device *dev);