Re: [BUG] ata: pata_marvell: Warning when probing the module

From: Zheyu Ma
Date: Tue Apr 12 2022 - 02:38:38 EST


On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 7:53 AM Damien Le Moal
<damien.lemoal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 4/10/22 15:30, Zheyu Ma wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I found a bug in the pata_marvell module.
> > When probing the driver, it seems to trigger the error path and
> > executes the function marvell_cable_detect(), but the
> > 'ap->ioaddr.bmdma_addr' is not initialized, which causes a warning.
>
> I do not have this hardware so I cannot debug this. Please debug it and
> send a patch. bmdma_addr is normally set in ata_pci_bmdma_init(), but some
> drivers set it manually in their probe functions. No idea about the
> marvell driver, I have not checked it.

To be honest I don't have a good solution to this problem, because
other drivers don't have similar behavior. The marvell driver doesn't
even initialize 'bmdma_addr' before calling 'cable_detect'.

So a simple idea I have is to check if 'bmdma_addr' is 0 before
reading it and if so return the error code ATA_CBL_NONE.

Zheyu Ma