[another PATCH] Fix crash on boot in kmalloc_node IDE changes

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu Jul 07 2005 - 11:27:09 EST


On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Without this patch a dual Xeon EM64T machine would oops on boot
> because the hwif pointer here was NULL. I also added a check for
> pci_dev because it's doubtful that all IDE devices have pci_devs.

Here is IMHO the right way to fix this. Test for the hwif != NULL and
test for pci_dev != NULL before determining the node number of the pci
bus that the device is connected to. Maybe we need a hwif_to_node for ide
drivers that is also able to determine the locality of other hardware?

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6.git/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c 2005-06-23 11:38:02.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.git/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c 2005-07-07 09:15:04.000000000 -0700
@@ -979,7 +979,8 @@
*/

q = blk_init_queue_node(do_ide_request, &ide_lock,
- pcibus_to_node(drive->hwif->pci_dev->bus));
+ (drive->hwif && drive->hwif->pci_dev) ?
+ pcibus_to_node(drive->hwif->pci_dev->bus): -1);
if (!q)
return 1;

@@ -1097,7 +1098,8 @@
spin_unlock_irq(&ide_lock);
} else {
hwgroup = kmalloc_node(sizeof(ide_hwgroup_t), GFP_KERNEL,
- pcibus_to_node(hwif->drives[0].hwif->pci_dev->bus));
+ (hwif->drives[0].hwif && hwif->drives[0].hwif->pci_dev) ?
+ pcibus_to_node(hwif->drives[0].hwif->pci_dev->bus) : -1);
if (!hwgroup)
goto out_up;

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