linux-kernel - [PATCH] virtio-pci: do not oops on config change if driver not loaded

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Date:	Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:33:53 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] virtio-pci: do not oops on config change if driver not loaded

From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>

The host really shouldn't be notifying us of config changes
before the device status is VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER or
VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK.

However, if we do happen to be interrupted while we're not
attached to a driver, we really shouldn't oops. Prevent
this simply by checking that device->driver is non-NULL
before trying to notify the driver of config changes.

Problem observed by doing a "set_link virtio.0 down" with
QEMU before the net driver had been loaded.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
---
 drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c
index bef6b45..330aacb 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ static irqreturn_t vp_interrupt(int irq, void *opaque)
 		drv = container_of(vp_dev->vdev.dev.driver,
 				   struct virtio_driver, driver);
 
-		if (drv->config_changed)
+		if (drv && drv->config_changed)
 			drv->config_changed(&vp_dev->vdev);
 	}
 
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