Re: [PATCH v6 09/30] PCI: Separate pci_host_bridge creation out of pci_create_root_bus()

[Yijing Wang]

>> +struct pci_host_bridge *pci_create_host_bridge(
>> +        struct device *parent, u32 db, struct list_head *resources)
>> +{
>> +    int error;
>> +    int bus = PCI_BUSNUM(db);
>> +    int domain = PCI_DOMAIN(db);
>> +    struct pci_host_bridge *host;
>> +    struct resource_entry *window, *n;
>> +
>> +    host = kzalloc(sizeof(*host), GFP_KERNEL);
>> +    if (!host)
>> +        return NULL;
>> +
>> +    host->busnum = bus;
>> +    host->domain = domain;
>> +    /* If support CONFIG_PCI_DOMAINS_GENERIC, use
>> +     * pci_host_assign_domain_nr() to assign domain
>> +     * number instead PCI_DOMAIN(db).
>> +     */
>> +    pci_host_assign_domain_nr(host);
> 
> At this point, host->dev.parent has not been assigned. However, when calling pci_host_assign_domain_nr(host), it calls pci_assign_domain_nr(host->dev.parent), which uses parent->of_node directly w/o checking if parent is NULL. This ended up causing NULL pointer exception when I do the test.
> 
> I think we need to moveo host->dev.parent = parent before calling pci_host_assign_domain_nr(host).

Good catch! Hi Suravee, thanks for your test, I would assign host->dev.parent before pci_host_assign_domain_nr().

Thanks!
Yijing.

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Thanks!
Yijing

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