From 99a2312f69805f4ba92d98a757625e0300a747ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guillaume Gonnet Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:32:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] dm init: ensure device probing has finished in dm-mod.waitfor= The early_lookup_bdev() function returns successfully when the disk device is present but not necessarily its partitions. In this situation, dm_early_create() fails as the partition block device does not exist yet. In my case, this phenomenon occurs quite often because the device is an SD card with slow reading times, on which kernel takes time to enumerate available partitions. Fortunately, the underlying device is back to "probing" state while enumerating partitions. Waiting for all probing to end is enough to fix this issue. That's also the reason why this problem never occurs with rootwait= parameter: the while loop inside wait_for_root() explicitly waits for probing to be done and then the function calls async_synchronize_full(). These lines were omitted in 035641b, even though the commit says it's based on the rootwait logic... Anyway, calling wait_for_device_probe() after our while loop does the job (it both waits for probing and calls async_synchronize_full). Fixes: 035641b01e72 ("dm init: add dm-mod.waitfor to wait for asynchronously probed block devices") Signed-off-by: Guillaume Gonnet Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka --- drivers/md/dm-init.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-init.c b/drivers/md/dm-init.c index 7403823384c5..c1bacba92c65 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-init.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-init.c @@ -303,8 +303,10 @@ static int __init dm_init_init(void) } } - if (waitfor[0]) + if (waitfor[0]) { + wait_for_device_probe(); DMINFO("all devices available"); + } list_for_each_entry(dev, &devices, list) { if (dm_early_create(&dev->dmi, dev->table,