Re: 2.4.17-pre2 & PCMCIA Errors

[Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>]

Alan Ford writes:

> Just tried 2.4.17-pre2 (was previously on 2.4.16-pre1) and when pcmcia-cs is
> started on bootup, the following happens:
> 
> cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
> cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
> cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
> cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:<1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
> dereference at virtual address 00000004

Please try this patch and let me know whether it fixes the problem.

Paul.

diff -urN linux-2.4.17-pre2/drivers/pcmcia/rsrc_mgr.c pmac/drivers/pcmcia/rsrc_mgr.c
--- linux-2.4.17-pre2/drivers/pcmcia/rsrc_mgr.c	Sat Dec  1 15:49:24 2001
+++ pmac/drivers/pcmcia/rsrc_mgr.c	Mon Dec  3 14:28:16 2001
@@ -107,17 +107,19 @@
 static struct resource *resource_parent(unsigned long b, unsigned long n,
 					int flags, struct pci_dev *dev)
 {
-	struct resource res;
+	struct resource res, *pr;
 
-	if (dev == NULL) {
-		if (flags & IORESOURCE_MEM)
-			return &iomem_resource;
-		return &ioport_resource;
+	if (dev != NULL) {
+		res.start = b;
+		res.end = b + n - 1;
+		res.flags = flags;
+		pr = pci_find_parent_resource(dev, &res);
+		if (pr)
+			return pr;
 	}
-	res.start = b;
-	res.end = b + n - 1;
-	res.flags = flags;
-	return pci_find_parent_resource(dev, &res);
+	if (flags & IORESOURCE_MEM)
+		return &iomem_resource;
+	return &ioport_resource;
 }
 
 static inline int check_io_resource(unsigned long b, unsigned long n,