While enabling sriov for intel igb device got: sca05-0a81fda5:~ # echo 7 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:09\:00.0/sriov_numvfs [ 729.612191] pci 0000:0a:10.0: [8086:1520] type 00 class 0x020000 [ 729.619002] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000e8 [ 729.627767] IP: [<ffffffff815901cb>] pci_get_hp_params+0x5b/0x640 [ 729.634593] PGD 0 [ 729.636844] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 729.640466] Modules linked in: ... [ 729.795268] Call Trace: [ 729.798007] [<ffffffff81ea0843>] ? pci_mmcfg_read+0x123/0x140 [ 729.804519] [<ffffffff81ea0770>] ? pci_mmcfg_read+0x50/0x140 [ 729.810942] [<ffffffff815692a3>] pci_configure_device+0x33/0x350 [ 729.817744] [<ffffffff8156aba4>] pci_device_add+0x24/0x160 [ 729.823965] [<ffffffff8158f3bb>] pci_enable_sriov+0x4db/0x7d0 [ 729.830486] [<ffffffff81b63f54>] ? igb_pci_enable_sriov+0xe4/0x200 [ 729.837481] [<ffffffff81b63f7f>] igb_pci_enable_sriov+0x10f/0x200 [ 729.844386] [<ffffffff8155129c>] ? _kstrtoull+0x2c/0x80 [ 729.850315] [<ffffffff81b640a5>] igb_pci_sriov_configure+0x35/0x40 [ 729.857318] [<ffffffff815752b5>] sriov_numvfs_store+0xe5/0x140 [ 729.863934] [<ffffffff817e1f88>] dev_attr_store+0x18/0x30 [ 729.870063] [<ffffffff812624d8>] sysfs_kf_write+0x48/0x60 [ 729.876186] [<ffffffff812617ef>] ? kernfs_fop_write+0xaf/0x170 [ 729.882797] [<ffffffff81261827>] kernfs_fop_write+0xe7/0x170 [ 729.889222] [<ffffffff811ef66b>] vfs_write+0xcb/0x1c0 [ 729.894958] [<ffffffff811f0019>] SyS_write+0x49/0xb0 ... [ 729.943531] ---[ end trace 7cf0cdb66637665a ]--- and pci_get_hp_params+0x5b point to 0xffffffff815901cb is in pci_get_hp_params (include/linux/device.h:815). 810 #include <linux/pm_wakeup.h> 811 812 static inline const char *dev_name(const struct device *dev) 813 { 814 /* Use the init name until the kobject becomes available */ 815 if (dev->init_name) 816 return dev->init_name; 817 818 return kobject_name(&dev->kobj); The root cause: Now pci_configure_device/pci_get_hp_params will be called for every pci_dev, including VF that is under virtual bus. But virtual bus does not have bridge set. So we can not refer pbus->self->dev directly. Add checking with pbus->slef and bail out early. Fixing: commit 6cd33649fa83 ("PCI: Add pci_configure_device() during enumeration") Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/pci-acpi.h | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/pci-acpi.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/pci-acpi.h +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/pci-acpi.h @@ -44,8 +44,12 @@ static inline acpi_handle acpi_pci_get_b if (pci_is_root_bus(pbus)) dev = pbus->bridge; - else + else { + if (!pbus->self) + return NULL; + dev = &pbus->self->dev; + } dev_printk(KERN_DEBUG, &pbus->dev, " bridge ACPI_HANDLE %p : %s\n", ACPI_HANDLE(dev), dev_name(dev)); -- 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