linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESION] Suspend hangs with 3.6-rc1 on Lenovo T60 notebook

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Message-ID: <502B448D.7050602@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:41:17 +0200
From:	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
CC:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REGRESION] Suspend hangs with 3.6-rc1 on Lenovo T60 notebook

Hi,

On 08/15/2012 07:13 AM, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Suspend oopses in generic_ide_suspend() because dev_get_drvdata()
> returns NULL (dev->p->driver_data == NULL) and this function is not
> prepared for this.
>
> I bisected it to 0998d063 (device-core: Ensure drvdata = NULL when no
> driver is bound).  Reverting it fixes suspend.
>

First of all, thanks for reporting and bisecting this. With that said,
I must say that this is very weird. The patch in question:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commitdiff;h=0998d063

Only makes dev-drvdata NULL in 2 cases:
1) The probe method of the driver fails
2) The driver has been detached from the device by calling one of:
    device_release_driver() or driver_detach()

Note that in both code paths dev->driver also gets set to NULL, and
other generic ide driver callbacks very much depend on that not being
NULL, ie:

static int generic_ide_remove(struct device *dev)
{
         ide_drive_t *drive = to_ide_device(dev);
         struct ide_driver *drv = to_ide_driver(dev->driver);

         if (drv->remove)
                 drv->remove(drive);

         return 0;
}

Also how can a drivers suspend callback get called if dev->driver is NULL,
since that callback would normally be "reached" through dev->driver, so
something weird is going on here ...

I hope one of the ide guys can shed some light on this.

Regards,

Hans
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