driver core: add helper for deferred probe reason setting

We now have three places within the same file doing the same operation
of freeing this pointer and setting it anew. A helper makes this
arguably easier to read, so add one.

Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Andrzej Hajda <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <[e-mail]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[e-mail]>

drivers/base/dd.c

···
  */
 static bool defer_all_probes;
 
+static void __device_set_deferred_probe_reason(const struct device *dev, char *reason)
+{
+	kfree(dev->p->deferred_probe_reason);
+	dev->p->deferred_probe_reason = reason;
+}
+
 /*
  * deferred_probe_work_func() - Retry probing devices in the active list.
  */
···
 
 		get_device(dev);
 
-		kfree(dev->p->deferred_probe_reason);
-		dev->p->deferred_probe_reason = NULL;
+		__device_set_deferred_probe_reason(dev, NULL);
 
 		/*
 		 * Drop the mutex while probing each device; the probe path may
···
 	if (!list_empty(&dev->p->deferred_probe)) {
 		dev_dbg(dev, "Removed from deferred list\n");
 		list_del_init(&dev->p->deferred_probe);
-		kfree(dev->p->deferred_probe_reason);
-		dev->p->deferred_probe_reason = NULL;
+		__device_set_deferred_probe_reason(dev, NULL);
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&deferred_probe_mutex);
 }
···
 void device_set_deferred_probe_reason(const struct device *dev, struct va_format *vaf)
 {
 	const char *drv = dev_driver_string(dev);
+	char *reason;
 
 	mutex_lock(&deferred_probe_mutex);
 
-	kfree(dev->p->deferred_probe_reason);
-	dev->p->deferred_probe_reason = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s: %pV", drv, vaf);
+	reason = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s: %pV", drv, vaf);
+	__device_set_deferred_probe_reason(dev, reason);
 
 	mutex_unlock(&deferred_probe_mutex);
 }