Re: pcie aspm link setup, grandparent instead of parent?

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Wed Jun 12 2013 - 17:55:05 EST


[+cc linux-pci, Myron, Joe]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> as a consequence of hitting a NULL dereference bug[1] while downstream
> aspm is setting up link_state, I started to wonder why is the code
> skipping its parent bus in favour of grandparent's link_state.[2]
>
> Is this right? (I have no device to test on ...)
>
> Thanks.
>
> ---
> 1: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=972381
> The bug is hit because "pdev->bus->parent" has NULL "->parent" and thus
> NULL "->self".
> 2: "pdev = bus->self", so "pdev->bus->parent == bus->parent->parent"
>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/aspm.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/aspm.c
> index 403a443..d58e282 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pcie/aspm.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/aspm.c
> @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ static struct pcie_link_state *alloc_pcie_link_state(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> link->pdev = pdev;
> if (pci_pcie_type(pdev) == PCI_EXP_TYPE_DOWNSTREAM) {
> struct pcie_link_state *parent;
> - parent = pdev->bus->parent->self->link_state;
> + parent = pdev->bus->self->link_state;
> if (!parent) {
> kfree(link);
> return NULL;
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