[PATCH] PCI: host-generic: Fix NULL pointer dereference on 32-bit CAM systems

From: Steffen Persvold

Date: Thu Jul 09 2026 - 08:25:22 EST


On 32-bit systems the config space is too large to ioremap in one go, so
pci_ecam_create() maps each bus segment separately and relies on the
->add_bus callback (pci_ecam_add_bus) to populate the per-bus mapping in
cfg->winp[]. pci_ecam_map_bus() then uses that mapping as the base for
every config access.

The generic ECAM ops (pci_generic_ecam_ops) already provide the ->add_bus
and ->remove_bus callbacks, but the CAM (legacy) ops in pci-host-generic.c
do not. As a result, on a 32-bit host using "pci-host-cam-generic" the
per-bus mapping is never set up and the first config read dereferences a
NULL base, crashing during bus enumeration:

[ 1.430647] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000800
[ 1.439441] Oops [#1]
[ 1.442152] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.9.7+ #43
[ 1.448753] Hardware name: Digilent Nexys-Video-A7 RV32 (DT)
[ 1.454968] epc : pci_generic_config_read+0x40/0xb0
[ 1.460652] ra : pci_generic_config_read+0x2c/0xb0
[ 1.534729] [<c038db9c>] pci_generic_config_read+0x40/0xb0
[ 1.541096] [<c038da04>] pci_bus_read_config_dword+0x50/0xb0
[ 1.547623] [<c0391e94>] pci_bus_generic_read_dev_vendor_id+0x3c/0x1ec
[ 1.555010] [<c039245c>] pci_scan_single_device+0xa4/0x11c
[ 1.561273] [<c0392570>] pci_scan_slot+0x9c/0x23c
[ 1.566716] [<c039388c>] pci_scan_child_bus_extend+0x58/0x2f4
[ 1.573275] [<c0393db0>] pci_scan_root_bus_bridge+0x64/0xe8
[ 1.579650] [<c0393e54>] pci_host_probe+0x20/0xc8
[ 1.591396] [<c03bc6f4>] pci_host_common_probe+0x144/0x1e4

Fix this by giving the CAM ops the same ->add_bus/->remove_bus callbacks.
Since pci_ecam_add_bus() and pci_ecam_remove_bus() are static to ecam.c,
move the CAM ops definition there as pci_generic_cam_ops (mirroring
pci_generic_ecam_ops) and export it for pci-host-generic.c to reference.

Fixes: 8fe55ef23387 ("PCI: Dynamically map ECAM regions")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Steffen Persvold <spersvold@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/pci/controller/pci-host-generic.c | 11 +----------
drivers/pci/ecam.c | 13 +++++++++++++
include/linux/pci-ecam.h | 3 +++
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-host-generic.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-host-generic.c
index c1bc0d34..9e85c6e9 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-host-generic.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-host-generic.c
@@ -16,15 +16,6 @@

#include "pci-host-common.h"

-static const struct pci_ecam_ops gen_pci_cfg_cam_bus_ops = {
- .bus_shift = 16,
- .pci_ops = {
- .map_bus = pci_ecam_map_bus,
- .read = pci_generic_config_read,
- .write = pci_generic_config_write,
- }
-};
-
static bool pci_dw_valid_device(struct pci_bus *bus, unsigned int devfn)
{
struct pci_config_window *cfg = bus->sysdata;
@@ -60,7 +51,7 @@ static const struct pci_ecam_ops pci_dw_ecam_bus_ops = {

static const struct of_device_id gen_pci_of_match[] = {
{ .compatible = "pci-host-cam-generic",
- .data = &gen_pci_cfg_cam_bus_ops },
+ .data = &pci_generic_cam_ops },

{ .compatible = "pci-host-ecam-generic",
.data = &pci_generic_ecam_ops },
diff --git a/drivers/pci/ecam.c b/drivers/pci/ecam.c
index 119de32f..a9b3bce2 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/ecam.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/ecam.c
@@ -208,6 +208,19 @@ const struct pci_ecam_ops pci_generic_ecam_ops = {
};
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pci_generic_ecam_ops);

+/* CAM ops */
+const struct pci_ecam_ops pci_generic_cam_ops = {
+ .bus_shift = 16,
+ .pci_ops = {
+ .add_bus = pci_ecam_add_bus,
+ .remove_bus = pci_ecam_remove_bus,
+ .map_bus = pci_ecam_map_bus,
+ .read = pci_generic_config_read,
+ .write = pci_generic_config_write,
+ }
+};
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pci_generic_cam_ops);
+
#if defined(CONFIG_ACPI) && defined(CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS)
/* ECAM ops for 32-bit access only (non-compliant) */
const struct pci_ecam_ops pci_32b_ops = {
diff --git a/include/linux/pci-ecam.h b/include/linux/pci-ecam.h
index d9306514..044f67ce 100644
--- a/include/linux/pci-ecam.h
+++ b/include/linux/pci-ecam.h
@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ void __iomem *pci_ecam_map_bus(struct pci_bus *bus, unsigned int devfn,
/* default ECAM ops */
extern const struct pci_ecam_ops pci_generic_ecam_ops;

+/* default CAM ops */
+extern const struct pci_ecam_ops pci_generic_cam_ops;
+
#if defined(CONFIG_ACPI) && defined(CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS)
extern const struct pci_ecam_ops pci_32b_ops; /* 32-bit accesses only */
extern const struct pci_ecam_ops pci_32b_read_ops; /* 32-bit read only */

base-commit: 53bf92818a8362815708fc7b18e6d2c6a5fc665b
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2.40.1