Hello Bjorn, I think this patch needs to be applied to all -stable branches (all the way back to 3.2). I encounter this same issue on my platform that is running 3.14.y. Thanks, Rajat > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-pci-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-pci- > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andreas Noever > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 2:04 PM > To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Bjorn Helgaas; linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Andreas Noever > Subject: [PATCH] PCI: Prevent NULL dereference during pciehp probe > > pciehp assumes that dev->subordinate exists. But we do not assign a bus if > we run out of bus numbers during enumeration. This leads to a NULL > dereference in init_slot (and other places). > > Change pciehp_probe to return -ENODEV when no subordinate bus is > present. > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c | 7 +++++++ > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c > b/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c > index 0e0a2ff..e5abcaf 100644 > --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c > +++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c > @@ -255,6 +255,13 @@ static int pciehp_probe(struct pcie_device *dev) > else if (pciehp_acpi_slot_detection_check(dev->port)) > goto err_out_none; > > + if (!dev->port->subordinate) { > + /* Can happen if we run out of bus numbers during probe */ > + dev_err(&dev->device, > + "Hotplug bridge without secondary bus, ignoring\n"); > + goto err_out_none; > + } > + > ctrl = pcie_init(dev); > if (!ctrl) { > dev_err(&dev->device, "Controller initialization failed\n"); > -- > 2.0.0 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the > body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html