Re: zalon/ncr53c720 crashes K460 (parisc port) on bootup.

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 10:45:50AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> This should fix the panic, but it simply detaches correctly.

We both missed it.  This is why it's panicing:

        host = ncr_attach(&zalon7xx_template, unit, &device);
        if (!host)
                goto fail;
 fail:
        ncr53c8xx_release(host);
        return error;

ie we're calling ncr53c8xx_release(NULL) so both your & my patch fail
to fix the problem.  This looks best to me:

+++ drivers/scsi/ncr53c8xx.c    27 Sep 2003 18:31:13 -0000
@@ -8855,11 +8855,14 @@ struct Scsi_Host * __init ncr_attach(str
 
 int ncr53c8xx_release(struct Scsi_Host *host)
 {
-       struct host_data *host_data = (struct host_data *)host->hostdata;
+       struct host_data *host_data;
 #ifdef DEBUG_NCR53C8XX
        printk("ncr53c8xx: release\n");
 #endif
-       if (host_data->ncb)
+       if (!host)
+               return 1;
+       host_data = (struct host_data *)host->hostdata;
+       if (host_data && host_data->ncb)
                ncr_detach(host_data->ncb);
        return 1;
 }

and it does fix the problem.  Maybe it's too much checking, but I'm not
interested in tracking down bugs like this again ;-)

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