Driver core fix for 5.12-rc6

Here is a single driver core fix for a reported problem with differed
 probing.  It has been in linux-next for a while with no reported
 problems.
 
 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-5.12-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull driver core fix from Greg KH:
 "Here is a single driver core fix for a reported problem with differed
  probing. It has been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  problems"

* tag 'driver-core-5.12-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
  driver core: clear deferred probe reason on probe retry
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Linus Torvalds 2021-04-03 10:14:47 -07:00
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@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ static void deferred_probe_work_func(struct work_struct *work)
get_device(dev);
kfree(dev->p->deferred_probe_reason);
dev->p->deferred_probe_reason = NULL;
/*
* Drop the mutex while probing each device; the probe path may
* manipulate the deferred list