kernel: backport proper fix for mtd preventing devices probing
authorRafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Sat, 29 Jul 2023 23:00:09 +0000 (01:00 +0200)
committerRafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Sat, 29 Jul 2023 23:05:49 +0000 (01:05 +0200)
Improper of_platform_populate() call caused issue with probing devices
drivers.

Fixes: 41e1e838fbbb ("kernel: backport mtd patch adding of_platform_populate() calls")
Fixes: #10232
Ref: 79af0593a30b ("kernel: switch back 5.15 to fw_devlink=permissive")
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
target/linux/generic/backport-5.15/409-v6.3-mtd-mtdpart-Don-t-create-platform-device-that-ll-nev.patch [new file with mode: 0644]

diff --git a/target/linux/generic/backport-5.15/409-v6.3-mtd-mtdpart-Don-t-create-platform-device-that-ll-nev.patch b/target/linux/generic/backport-5.15/409-v6.3-mtd-mtdpart-Don-t-create-platform-device-that-ll-nev.patch
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..ba14ae0
--- /dev/null
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+From fb42378dcc7f247df56f0ecddfdae85487495fbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
+Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 17:42:04 -0800
+Subject: [PATCH] mtd: mtdpart: Don't create platform device that'll never
+ probe
+
+These "nvmem-cells" platform devices never get probed because there's no
+platform driver for it and it's never used anywhere else. So it's a
+waste of memory. These devices also cause fw_devlink to block nvmem
+consumers of "nvmem-cells" partition from probing because the supplier
+device never probes.
+
+So stop creating platform devices for nvmem-cells partitions to avoid
+wasting memory and to avoid blocking probing of consumers.
+
+Reported-by: Maxim Kiselev <bigunclemax@gmail.com>
+Fixes: bcdf0315a61a ("mtd: call of_platform_populate() for MTD partitions")
+Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
+Tested-by: Maksim Kiselev <bigunclemax@gmail.com>
+Tested-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
+Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
+Tested-by: Luca Weiss <luca.weiss@fairphone.com> # qcom/sm7225-fairphone-fp4
+Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230207014207.1678715-13-saravanak@google.com
+Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+---
+ drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c | 10 ++++++++++
+ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
+
+--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
++++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
+@@ -577,6 +577,7 @@ static int mtd_part_of_parse(struct mtd_
+ {
+       struct mtd_part_parser *parser;
+       struct device_node *np;
++      struct device_node *child;
+       struct property *prop;
+       struct device *dev;
+       const char *compat;
+@@ -594,6 +595,15 @@ static int mtd_part_of_parse(struct mtd_
+       else
+               np = of_get_child_by_name(np, "partitions");
++      /*
++       * Don't create devices that are added to a bus but will never get
++       * probed. That'll cause fw_devlink to block probing of consumers of
++       * this partition until the partition device is probed.
++       */
++      for_each_child_of_node(np, child)
++              if (of_device_is_compatible(child, "nvmem-cells"))
++                      of_node_set_flag(child, OF_POPULATED);
++
+       of_property_for_each_string(np, "compatible", prop, compat) {
+               parser = mtd_part_get_compatible_parser(compat);
+               if (!parser)