[PATCH net] PCI: fix the return value for the pci_find_pcie_root_port()

[Ding Tianhong]

On 2017/8/17 18:51, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:25:30AM +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
>> The pci_find_pcie_root_port() would return NULL if the given
>> dev is already a Root Port, it looks like unfriendly to the
>> PCIe Root Port device, Thierry and Bjorn suggest to let this
>> function return the given dev under this circumstances.
>>
>> Fixes: 0e405232871d6 ("PCI: fix oops when try to find Root Port for a PCI device")
>> Suggested-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com>
>> Suggested-by: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas at kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong at huawei.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/pci/pci.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c
>> index 7e2022f..352bb53 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
>> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
>> @@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ struct resource *pci_find_resource(struct pci_dev *dev, struct resource *res)
>>   */
>>  struct pci_dev *pci_find_pcie_root_port(struct pci_dev *dev)
>>  {
>> -	struct pci_dev *bridge, *highest_pcie_bridge = NULL;
>> +	struct pci_dev *bridge, *highest_pcie_bridge = dev;
>>  
>>  	bridge = pci_upstream_bridge(dev);
>>  	while (bridge && pci_is_pcie(bridge)) {
> 
> I think this should actually be this change on top of a revert of commit
> 0e405232871d6 ("PCI: fix oops when try to find Root Port for a PCI
> device"). After the above change, the previous fix will have a redundant
> check because highest_pcie_bridge will never be NULL.
> 
> Let me send out that version to clarify what I mean.
> 

Hi Thierry:

The patch ("PCI: fix oops when try to find Root Port for a PCI device")
has been merge to the linus mainline tree before you found this deficiencies....

Regards
Tianhong

> Thierry
>