On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> wrote: > The pci-host-generic driver parses the linux,pci-probe-only property, > and assumes that it will have a boolean parameter. > > Turns out that the Seattle DTS file has a naked "linux,pci-probe-only" > property, which leads to the driver dereferencing some unsuspecting > memory location. Nothing really bad happens (we end up reading some > other bit of DT, fortunately), but that not a reason to keep it this > way. Turns out that the Pseries code (where this code was lifted from) > may suffer from the same issue. > > The first patch introduces a common (and fixed) version of that check > that can be used by drivers and architectures that require it. The two > following patches change the pci-host-generic driver and the powerpc > code to use it. > > Finally, the bad property is removed from the Seatle DTS, because it > is simply not necessary (it actually prevents me from using SR-IOV, > which otherwise runs fine without the probe-only thing). > > This has been tested on the offending Seattle board. > > * From v3: > - Restrict the property lookup to /chosen (Rob) > - Acked-by on patch #4 from Suravee > - I swear this is the last time I rework these patches! ;-) > > * From v2: > - Use of_property_read_u32 to safely read the property (Rob) > - Add a log message to indicate when we enable probe-only > (probably quite useful for debugging) > > * From v1: > - Consolidate the parsing in of_pci.c (Bjorn) > > Marc Zyngier (4): > of/pci: Add of_pci_check_probe_only to parse "linux,pci-probe-only" > PCI: pci-host-generic: Fix lookup of linux,pci-probe-only property > powerpc: PCI: Fix lookup of linux,pci-probe-only property > arm64: dts: Drop linux,pci-probe-only from the Seattle DTS > > arch/arm64/boot/dts/amd/amd-overdrive.dts | 1 - > arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c | 14 ++------------ > drivers/of/of_pci.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/pci/host/pci-host-generic.c | 9 +-------- > include/linux/of_pci.h | 3 +++ > 5 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) For the series: Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> Rob -- 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
