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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: fix no_pci_devices() #2
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:31:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081220233140.GA1505@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081220111419.GA5367@localhost.localdomain>

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:14:19PM +0100, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> >> Care to make a patch for no_pci_devices() to work properly in this kind
> >> of situation?
> >
> > How does this look?
> >
> > I have introduced a variable pci_is_initiated, which is set after the bus
> > has been registered.
> 
> This patch is simpler and also works for me. But I am not too fond of it
> either...
> 
> 
> Vegard
> 
> 
> >From 1f047c86fc7a831d85174452da92344a3582a158 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:08:18 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] pci: fix no_pci_devices() #2
> 
> In short, no_pci_devices() should not use bus_find_device() before
> initcalls have run, because the pci bus structure has not been
> initialized yet.
> 
> Reference: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/20/21
> 
> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/base/bus.c  |    1 +
>  drivers/pci/probe.c |    3 +++
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
> index 5aee1c0..5e83faf 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
> @@ -931,6 +931,7 @@ bus_devices_fail:
>  bus_uevent_fail:
>  	kset_unregister(&bus->p->subsys);
>  	kfree(bus->p);
> +	bus->p = NULL;
>  out:
>  	return retval;

I like this portion anyway, care to break this out into a separate
patch and send it to me?

The first one also looks good to me, Jesse, feel free to add my:
	Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-20 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-18 22:06 v2.6.28-rc7: error in panic code? (NULL pointer dereference at 0000004c) Vegard Nossum
2008-12-19 17:19 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-12-19 17:39   ` Greg KH
2008-12-19 20:35     ` Pekka Enberg
2008-12-20  0:46       ` Greg KH
2008-12-20  8:52         ` Vegard Nossum
2008-12-20  8:58           ` Greg KH
2008-12-20 10:56             ` [PATCH] pci: fix no_pci_devices() Vegard Nossum
2008-12-20 11:14               ` [PATCH] pci: fix no_pci_devices() #2 Vegard Nossum
2008-12-20 23:31                 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-01-05 19:09                 ` Jesse Barnes
2009-01-07  0:42                   ` Greg KH
2009-01-16 18:41                     ` Jesse Barnes
2009-01-16 19:21                       ` Vegard Nossum
2009-01-27 18:41                         ` Jesse Barnes

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