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Message-ID: <4E31788F.7000307@lwfinger.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:56:15 -0500
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To: hubert Liao <liao.hubertt@...il.com>
CC: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>, wlanfae@...ltek.com,
Chaoming Li <chaoming_li@...lsil.com.cn>,
linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Oops when insmod rtl8192ce
On 07/28/2011 02:06 AM, hubert Liao wrote:
> 2011/7/27 John W. Linville<linville@...driver.com>:
>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 05:20:15PM +0800, hubert Liao wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We got an oops when insmod rtl8192ce module (the board is an ARM soc),
>>> accroding the oops message, find it's because in rtl_pci_probe() called
>>> _rtl_pci_find_adapter(),
>>> in this funcation, the pdev->bus->self is a NULL pointer .
>>>
>>> static boot _rtl_pci_find_adapter(strcut pci_dev *dev,
>>> struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
>>> {
>>>
>>> struct pci_dev *bridge_pdev = pdev->bus->self; //line 1601
>>> ...
>>>
>>> pcipriv->ndis_adapter.pcibridge_vendorid = bridge_pdev->vendor;<-- [oops
>>> here] line 1700
>>>
>>> ...
>>> }
>>>
>>> here, I just want to know why the bus->self is NULL?
>>
>> pdev is coming straight from what is passed to the PCI probe routine.
>> It seems like pdev->bus->self should already be set before that
>> happens.
>>
> Yes, I think it should be initialized when added the pci bus bridge,
> I have checked the mach-kirkwood(my board is arch/arm/mach-kirkwood)
> pcie related code, and I think when system initialized should call
> kirkwood_pcie_init() ->
> kirkwood_pcie_scan_bus() ->
> pci_scan_bus() ->
> pci_bus_add_devices()
> if the pci_bus->self was initialized in pci_bus_add_devices()?
> Maybe the code is too complex for me , I really can not find where
> set the “->self" member?
I added a request to the bugzilla entry to post the full dmesg output there.
Perhaps there is some clue in the bus setup.
Larry
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