Subject: Re: [PATCH net RESEND] PCI: fix oops when try to find Root Port for a PCI device

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:12:58 +1000

Thierry Reding <[email-masked]> writes:
...
>
> In case of Tegra, dev actually points to the root port. Now if I read
> the above code correctly, highest_pcie_bridge will still be NULL in that
> case, which in turn will return NULL from pci_find_pcie_root_port(). But
> shouldn't it really return dev?
>
> The patch that I used to fix the issue is this:
>
> --->8---
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c
> index 2c712dcfd37d..dd56c1c05614 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
> @@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(pci_find_resource);
>   */
>  struct pci_dev *pci_find_pcie_root_port(struct pci_dev *dev)
>  {
> -       struct pci_dev *bridge, *highest_pcie_bridge = NULL;
> +       struct pci_dev *bridge, *highest_pcie_bridge = dev;
>  
>         bridge = pci_upstream_bridge(dev);
>         while (bridge && pci_is_pcie(bridge)) {
> --->8---
>
> That works correctly if this function ends up being called on the PCIe
> root port, though perhaps that's not what this function is supposed to
> do. It's somewhat unclear from the kerneldoc what the function should
> be doing when called on a root port device itself.

That also works for me on powerpc (oops reported up thread).

cheers