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Date:	Mon, 7 Sep 2015 10:15:37 +0100
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	"suravee.suthikulpanit@....com" <suravee.suthikulpanit@....com>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com>,
	"grant.likely@...aro.org" <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	"agraf@...e.de" <agraf@...e.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] PCI: pci-host-generic: Fix lookup of
 linux,pci-probe-only property

On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 05:50:09PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> When pci-host-generic looks for the probe-only property, it seems
> to trust the DT to be correctly written, and assumes that there
> is a parameter to the property.
> 
> Unfortunately, this is not always the case, and some firmware expose
> this property naked. The driver ends up making a decision based on
> whatever the property pointer points to, which is likely to be junk.
> 
> Switch to the common of_pci.c implementation that doesn't suffer
> from this problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/host/pci-host-generic.c | 9 +--------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/host/pci-host-generic.c b/drivers/pci/host/pci-host-generic.c
> index 265dd25..224303d 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/host/pci-host-generic.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/host/pci-host-generic.c
> @@ -210,7 +210,6 @@ static int gen_pci_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	int err;
>  	const char *type;
>  	const struct of_device_id *of_id;
> -	const int *prop;
>  	struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
>  	struct device_node *np = dev->of_node;
>  	struct gen_pci *pci = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*pci), GFP_KERNEL);
> @@ -225,13 +224,7 @@ static int gen_pci_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  
> -	prop = of_get_property(of_chosen, "linux,pci-probe-only", NULL);
> -	if (prop) {
> -		if (*prop)
> -			pci_add_flags(PCI_PROBE_ONLY);
> -		else
> -			pci_clear_flags(PCI_PROBE_ONLY);
> -	}
> +	of_pci_check_probe_only();

Looks good to me:

  Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>

Thanks, Marc.

Will
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