Without this patch a Opteron test system here oopses at boot with currentg git. Calling to_pci_dev() on a NULL pointer gives a negative value so the following NULL pointer check never triggers and then an illegal address is referenced. Check the unadjusted original device pointer for NULL instead. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> Index: linux/include/linux/ide.h =================================================================== --- linux.orig/include/linux/ide.h +++ linux/include/linux/ide.h @@ -1294,7 +1294,7 @@ static inline void ide_dump_identify(u8 static inline int hwif_to_node(ide_hwif_t *hwif) { struct pci_dev *dev = to_pci_dev(hwif->dev); - return dev ? pcibus_to_node(dev->bus) : -1; + return hwif->dev ? pcibus_to_node(dev->bus) : -1; } static inline ide_drive_t *ide_get_paired_drive(ide_drive_t *drive) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html