Hi Alan, the patch fix the issue. I tested it on a notebook with a cardbus controller and on desktop machine with a thunderbolt interface. Both are working. Thunderbolt will sometimes crash but i think this is a issue with dynamic added pci bridges, which cause a lot of trouble and headache to me. Thanks, Greetings, Stefani Am Montag, den 14.04.2014, 11:11 -0400 schrieb Alan Stern: > On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, Stefani Seibold wrote: > > > A hot plug of an USB 2.0 EHCI controller cardbus card will result in a > > kernel crash. This is the kernel log of a vanilla 3.14 x86_64 kernel. I > > will attach my kernel config. > > > [ 70.419755] ehci-pci 0000:04:00.2: EHCI Host Controller > > [ 70.419874] ehci-pci 0000:04:00.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 9 > > [ 70.419980] ehci-pci 0000:04:00.2: irq 19, io mem 0xf1402000 > > [ 70.422796] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver > > [ 70.424894] ohci-pci: OHCI PCI platform driver > > [ 70.425072] ehci-pci 0000:04:00.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 0.95 > > [ 70.425132] usb usb9: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002 > > [ 70.425135] usb usb9: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1 > > [ 70.425138] usb usb9: Product: EHCI Host Controller > > [ 70.425141] usb usb9: Manufacturer: Linux 3.14.0 ehci_hcd > > [ 70.425144] usb usb9: SerialNumber: 0000:04:00.2 > > [ 70.425332] hub 9-0:1.0: USB hub found > > [ 70.425344] hub 9-0:1.0: 5 ports detected > > [ 70.425556] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000040 > > [ 70.425560] IP: [<ffffffff814947cc>] usb_set_configuration+0x1c/0x7d0 > > [ 70.425568] PGD 30d571067 PUD 30d570067 PMD 0 > > [ 70.425572] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP > > [ 70.425576] Modules linked in: ohci_pci(+) ohci_hcd rfcomm btusb ppdev intel_agp intel_gtt 8250 video parport_pc parport serial_core nvidia(PO) drm agpgart > > [ 70.425604] CPU: 3 PID: 83 Comm: pccardd Tainted: P O 3.14.0 #1 > > [ 70.425607] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Precision M6400 /0G841G, BIOS A13 06/05/2013 > > [ 70.425609] task: ffff88030eefe150 ti: ffff88030ef86000 task.ti: ffff88030ef86000 > > [ 70.425611] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff814947cc>] [<ffffffff814947cc>] usb_set_configuration+0x1c/0x7d0 > > [ 70.425615] RSP: 0018:ffff88030ef87ba0 EFLAGS: 00010286 > > [ 70.425617] RAX: ffff88030c7ce800 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88030ea57000 > > [ 70.425619] RDX: ffff88030dcb6800 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000 > > [ 70.425620] RBP: ffff88030ef87c38 R08: ffff88030dfa6910 R09: 0000000000000000 > > [ 70.425622] R10: 0000000000004e2e R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 > > [ 70.425624] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff814a0b80 R15: ffff88030c7ce800 > > [ 70.425626] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88031fd80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > > [ 70.425628] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b > > [ 70.425630] CR2: 0000000000000040 CR3: 000000030c714000 CR4: 00000000000407e0 > > [ 70.425631] Stack: > > [ 70.425632] ffffffff81340110 ffffffff814a0b80 ffff88030ef87bc8 ffffffff817b3858 > > [ 70.425636] ffff88030dcb6898 ffff88030ef87c00 ffffffff813d6daf ffff88030f429000 > > [ 70.425640] 000000010ef87bf0 ffffffff813d4737 ffff88030ef87c00 ffffffff8133f19a > > [ 70.425644] Call Trace: > > [ 70.425650] [<ffffffff81340110>] ? pci_do_find_bus+0x70/0x70 > > [ 70.425653] [<ffffffff814a0b80>] ? hcd_pci_suspend_noirq+0xa0/0xa0 > > [ 70.425659] [<ffffffff817b3858>] ? klist_iter_exit+0x18/0x30 > > [ 70.425663] [<ffffffff813d6daf>] ? bus_find_device+0x7f/0xb0 > > [ 70.425666] [<ffffffff813d4737>] ? put_device+0x17/0x20 > > [ 70.425669] [<ffffffff8133f19a>] ? pci_dev_put+0x1a/0x20 > > [ 70.425672] [<ffffffff81340361>] ? pci_get_dev_by_id+0x61/0x90 > > [ 70.425675] [<ffffffff814a0b80>] ? hcd_pci_suspend_noirq+0xa0/0xa0 > > [ 70.425679] [<ffffffff814a0bcb>] ehci_post_add+0x4b/0x60 > > [ 70.425682] [<ffffffff814a0070>] for_each_companion+0x80/0xa0 > > [ 70.425685] [<ffffffff814a0504>] usb_hcd_pci_probe+0x474/0x4e0 > > I think I see the problem; the driver data for the companion controller > gets set before we expect it. The patch below should help, by adding a > check to see that the companion's root hub has been allocated. > > Alan Stern > > > > Index: usb-3.14/drivers/usb/core/hcd-pci.c > =================================================================== > --- usb-3.14.orig/drivers/usb/core/hcd-pci.c > +++ usb-3.14/drivers/usb/core/hcd-pci.c > @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static void for_each_companion(struct pc > PCI_SLOT(companion->devfn) != slot) > continue; > companion_hcd = pci_get_drvdata(companion); > - if (!companion_hcd) > + if (!companion_hcd || !companion_hcd->self.root_hub) > continue; > fn(pdev, hcd, companion, companion_hcd); > } > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html