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    serial: core: fix -EPROBE_DEFER handling in init · cef09673
    Dan Carpenter authored
    The -EPROBE_DEFER error path in serial_base_device_init() is a bit
    awkward.  Before the call to device_initialize(dev) then we need to
    manually release all the device resources.  And after the call then we
    need to call put_device() to release the resources.  Doing either one
    wrong will result in a leak or a use after free.
    
    So let's wait to return -EPROBE_DEFER until after the call to
    device_initialize(dev) so that way callers do not have to handle
    -EPROBE_DEFER as a special case.  Now callers can just use put_device()
    for clean up.
    
    The second issue with the -EPROBE_DEFER path is that deferring is not
    supposed to be a fatal error, but instead it's normal part of the
    init process and the kernel recovers from it automatically.  That means
    we should not print an error message but just a debug message on this
    path.
    
    Fixes: 53991424 ("serial: core: Fix probing serial_base_bus devices")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarTony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
    Message-ID: <18318adb-ab2c-4dcc-9f96-498a13d16b80@moroto.mountain>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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