linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PCI, X86: busnum/node boot command line for pci dev node setting.

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:55:12 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, lenb@...nel.org, x86@...nel.org,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI, X86: busnum/node boot command line for pci dev node setting.

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com> wrote:
>>
>> Can you convince me this is safe?  pci_setup() is an early_param, so
>> it looks to me like we might be saving a pointer to initdata in this
>> call path:
>>
>>    setup_arch
>>      parse_early_param
>>        strlcpy(tmp_cmdline, boot_command_line)
>>        parse_early_options(__initdata tmp_cmdline)
>>          parse_args
>>            do_early_param
>>              ...
>>              pci_setup (early_param)
>>                pcibios_setup
>>                  remember_busnum_node
>>
>> And then we use that saved pointer to parse the string at host bridge
>> add-time, which might be after initdata has been freed.
>
> ok, that will need one separate buffer.

could used saved_command_line directly.

also do we need to include this one to upsteam ?

Thanks

Yinghai

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