From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: helgaas@kernel.org (Bjorn Helgaas) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 10:14:07 -0500 Subject: [PATCH v1 15/25] PCI: generic: Free resource list close to where it's allocated In-Reply-To: <20160620172240.GA30625@red-moon> References: <20160606225630.20936.77349.stgit@bhelgaas-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> <20160606230636.20936.29083.stgit@bhelgaas-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> <20160620172240.GA30625@red-moon> Message-ID: <20160621151407.GC31917@localhost> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 06:22:40PM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 09:56:45AM -0700, Tyler Baker wrote: > > Hi Bjorn, > > > > On 6 June 2016 at 16:06, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > Previously we allocated the PCI resource list in > > > gen_pci_parse_request_of_pci_ranges(), but if we had an error, we freed it > > > on error in gen_pci_init(). > > > > > > Reorder gen_pci_init() so we can take care of error path cleanup in > > > gen_pci_parse_request_of_pci_ranges() instead. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas > > > > The kernelci.org bot has reported[0] new qemu-aarch64 > > (arm64-defconfig) boot failures[1][2] in next-20160620. I've > > bisected[3] this boot failure down to this patch, and confirmed > > reverting it on top of next-20160620 resolves the boot issue. > > > > I have not investigated further, but you can easily reproduce[4] the > > boot failure on an x86 host running qemu-system-aarch64 (I'm running > > qemu-system 2.6). > > That's most likely because pci_ecam_create() requires the bus_range > resource (its busr parameter) to be initialized when it is called > and that's not the case after this patch is applied if I read it > correctly. > > It is probably a NULL pointer dereference in pci_ecam_create(). Yep, thanks everybody, I dropped that ill-considered patch altogether. > > [0] https://kernelci.org/boot/all/job/next/kernel/next-20160620/ > > [1] https://storage.kernelci.org/next/next-20160620/arm64-defconfig/lab-cambridge/boot-apm-mustang-kvm-guest.txt > > [2] https://storage.kernelci.org/next/next-20160620/arm64-defconfig/lab-tbaker/boot-qemu-aarch64,legacy.txt > > [3] http://hastebin.com/segiruribu.vbs > > [4] http://hastebin.com/dafuzicuyi.avrasm > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in > > the body of a message to majordomo at vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-arm-kernel mailing list > linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel