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Date:	Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:05:56 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>
Cc:	Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@...hat.com>, lenb@...nel.org,
	bjorn.helgaas@...com, andrew.patterson@...com,
	jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: pci_root: fix NULL pointer deref after resume from suspend

On Monday 28 September 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday 28 September 2009, Alex Chiang wrote:
> > Hi Xiaotian,
> > 
> > Thanks for the bug report.
> > 
> > * Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@...hat.com>:
> > > commit 275582 introduces acpi_get_pci_dev(), but pdev->subordinate
> > > can be NULL, then a NULL was passed to pci_get_slot, this results
> > > the kernel oops when resume from suspend.
> > > 
> > > This patch resolves following kernel oops:
> > > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
> > > IP: [<ffffffff812217e7>] pci_get_slot+0x4c/0x8c
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@...hat.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/acpi/pci_root.c |    6 +++++-
> > >  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/pci_root.c b/drivers/acpi/pci_root.c
> > > index 3112221..3c35144 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/acpi/pci_root.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/acpi/pci_root.c
> > > @@ -387,7 +387,11 @@ struct pci_dev *acpi_get_pci_dev(acpi_handle handle)
> > >  		if (!pdev || hnd == handle)
> > >  			break;
> > >  
> > > -		pbus = pdev->subordinate;
> > > +		if (pdev->subordinate)
> > > +			pbus = pdev->subordinate;
> > > +		else
> > > +			pbus = pdev->bus;
> > > +
> > 
> > I'm a little confused by this. If we start from the PCI root
> > bridge and walk back down the hierarchy, shouldn't everything
> > between the root and the device be a P2P bridge?
> 
> Well, if my reading of the code is correct, there's no guarantee that
> pci_get_slot() will always return either the right device or a bridge.

I should have been more precise.

If devfn of node happens to be the same as devfn of a non-bridge device on
pbus, the pci_get_slot() will return a valid pointer to it, but
pdev->subordinate will be NULL.  Is it impossible for some reason?

Thanks,
Rafael
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