[PATCH 1/3] dev: Disambiguate errors in uclass_find

[Simon Glass]

Hi Sean,

On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 15:46, Sean Anderson <seanga2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There are two cases where uclass_find can return an error. The second is
> when the uclass has not yet been init'd. The first is when the driver model
> has not been init'd (or has been only partially init'd) and there is no
> root uclass driver.
>
> If LOG_SYSLOG is enabled and LOG_DEFAULT_LEVEL is set to LOGL_DEBUG or
> higher, log_syslog_emit will try to call net_init before initf_dm has been
> called. This in turn (eventually) calls uclass_get for UCLASS_ETH.
>
> If the second error occurs, uclass_get should call uclass_add to create the
> uclass. If the first error occurs, then uclass_get should not call
> uclass_add (because the uclass list has not been initialized). However, the
> first error is expected when calling uclass_get for UCLASS_ROOT, so we add
> an exception.
>
> There are several alternative approaches to this patch. One option would be
> to duplicate the check against gd->dm_root in uclass_get and not change the
> behavior of uclass_find. I did not choose this approach because I think it
> it is less clear than the patch as-is. However, that is certainly
> subjective, and there is no other technical reason to do it this way.
>
> Another approach would have been to change log_syslog_emit to abort if it
> is called too early. I did not choose this approach because the check in
> uclass_find to see if gd->dm_root exists implies that functions in its
> file are allowed to be called at any time. There is an argument to be made
> that callers should ensure that they don't call certain functions too
> early. I think it is better to code defensively in these circumstances to
> make it easier to discover such errors.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <seanga2 at gmail.com>
> ---
>
>  drivers/core/uclass.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
>  test/dm/core.c        |  2 +-
>  test/dm/test-main.c   |  2 +-
>  3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

I'm not sure you can do this. You need to call dm_init() to get DM
running properly.

So in this case I think we need to arrange for the log output to not
happen, before DM is inited.

Regards,
Simon