On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 08:42:02AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > @@ -1341,7 +1322,14 @@ int ib_register_device(struct ib_device *device, const char *name, > if (ret) > return ret; > > - setup_dma_device(device, dma_device); > + /* > + * If the caller does not provide a DMA capable device then the IB core > + * will set up ib_sge and scatterlist structures that stash the kernel > + * virtual address into the address field. > + */ > + device->dma_device = dma_device; > + WARN_ON(dma_device && !dma_device->dma_parms); I noticed there were a couple of places expecting dma_device to be set to !NULL: drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c: dma_get_max_seg_size(device->dma_device), sg, npages, drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c: ctrl->ctrl.numa_node = dev_to_node(ctrl->device->dev->dma_device); net/rds/ib.c: device->dma_device, No sure what to do about RDS.. Jason