Re: [PATCH] PCI, x86: clear initial value for root info resources

[Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>]

On 09/19/2012 07:49 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
>>> Found one system one root bus hot remove get panic.
>>> Panic happens when try to release hostbridge resource.
>>>
>>> It turns out that resource get reject during put into resource tree
>>> because of conflicts.
>>> Also that resource parent pointer have random value.
>>>
>>> That invalid value cause it pass through check __release_pci_root_info
>>> and panic in release_resource.
>>>
>>> Try to use kzalloc instead.
>>
>> Don't we need the same fix for ia64 in pci_acpi_scan_root()?  Here's
>> what it does:
>>
>>         if (windows) {
>>                 controller->window =
>>                         kmalloc_node(sizeof(*controller->window) * windows,
>>                                      GFP_KERNEL, controller->node);
>>
> 
> 
> yes, but they don't support pci_set_host_bridge_release yet. so they
> should not meet this problem yet.
Hi Yinghai,
	We are trying to add pci_set_host_bridge_release() for IA64, so would
appreciate it if you could help to fix IA64 too.
	--Gerry