From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 17:57:05 -0700
> The function pcibios_add_device() added by commit d0c31e020057
> ("sparc/PCI: Fix for panic while enabling SR-IOV") initializes
> the dev_archdata by doing a memcpy from the PF. This has the
> problem that it erroneously copies the OF device without
> explicitly refcounting it.
>
> As David Miller pointed out: "Generally speaking we don't
> really support hot-plug for OF probed devices, but if we did
> all of the device tree pointers have to be refcounted properly."
>
> To fix this error, and also avoid code duplication, this patch
> creates a new helper function, pci_init_dev_archdata(), that
> initializes the fields in dev_archdata, and can be invoked
> by callers after they have taken the needed refcounts
>
> Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Applied.
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