driver core: force NOIO allocations during unplug

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There is one overlooked situation under which a driver must not do IO to
allocate memory. You cannot do that while disconnecting a device. A
device being disconnected is no longer functional in most cases, yet IO
may fail only when the handler runs.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200916191544.5104-1-oneukum@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Oliver Neukum 2020-09-16 21:15:44 +02:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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