Driver core: treat unregistered bus_types as having no devices
authorBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:44:27 +0000 (16:44 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 4 Feb 2013 01:55:29 +0000 (17:55 -0800)
commit4fa3e78be7e985ca814ce2aa0c09cbee404efcf7
tree5afeff2353b3c6c1fd9ebad53c24ca8efcfe5371
parent422d26b6ecd77af8c77f2a40580679459825170f
Driver core: treat unregistered bus_types as having no devices

A bus_type has a list of devices (klist_devices), but the list and the
subsys_private structure that contains it are not initialized until the
bus_type is registered with bus_register().

The panic/reboot path has fixups that look up devices in pci_bus_type.  If
we panic before registering pci_bus_type, the bus_type exists but the list
does not, so mach_reboot_fixups() trips over a null pointer and panics
again:

    mach_reboot_fixups
      pci_get_device
        ..
          bus_find_device(&pci_bus_type, ...)
            bus->p is NULL

Joonsoo reported a problem when panicking before PCI was initialized.
I think this patch should be sufficient to replace the patch he posted
here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/28/75 ("[PATCH] x86, reboot: skip
reboot_fixups in early boot phase")

Reported-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/base/bus.c