Re: [PATCH] acpi: pci_root: fix NULL pointer deref after resume from suspend

[Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>]

* Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>:
> On Tuesday 29 September 2009, Danny Feng wrote:
> > Is there any cases that pdev->subordinate is NULL while pdev is bridge 
> > device?
> >  From pci_slot.c::walk_p2p_bridge, there's code like following:
> > 
> >          dev = pci_get_slot(pci_bus, PCI_DEVFN(device, function));
> >          if (!dev || !dev->subordinate)
> >                  goto out;
> > 
> > It looks like dev->subordinate can be NULL even if in p2p
> > bridge, right?

In the code you post above, that results from doing an ACPI
namespace walk, which will definitely find non-bridge devices.
 
> Right, in general, but in this particular case each device we
> inspect is supposed to be a parent of another device, which
> implies that there's a bus below it (given that it's a PCI
> device).

Right, that's why I'm surprised that my assumption broke. But now
that I see that a dock device is involved, maybe that's not so
surprising.

/ac