Re: [PATCH next] ide: fix PowerMac bootup oops

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Tuesday 09 June 2009 15:02:20 Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 13:44:25 Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > > 
> > > But memset id in probe_for_drive() when it might be being reused -
> > > or would it be better to memset it wherever it used to be kfreed?
> > 
> > Please memset() it in ide_port_init_devices_data() -- this function
> > is called before IDE device structure is going to be (re-)used.
> 
> That makes sense too, thanks, here we go...
> 
> 
> [PATCH next] ide: fix PowerMac bootup oops
> 
> PowerMac bootup with CONFIG_IDE=y oopses in ide_pio_cycle_time():
> because "ide: try to use PIO Mode 0 during probe if possible" causes
> pmac_ide_set_pio_mode() to be called before drive->id has been set.
> 
> Bart points out other places which now need drive->id set earlier,
> so follow his advice to allocate it in ide_port_alloc_devices()
> (using kzalloc_node, without error message, as when allocating drive)
> and memset it for reuse in ide_port_init_devices_data().
> 
> Fixed in passing: ide_host_alloc() was missing ide_port_free_devices()
> from an error path.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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