[PATCH v2, part 1 3/9] PCI: Convert alloc_pci_dev(void) to pci_alloc_dev(bus) instead

[Yinghai Lu]

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 07:58 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
>> Ben,
>>
>> in drivers/pci/probe.c::pci_scan_device() there is
>>
>>         pci_set_of_node(dev);
>>
>>         if (pci_setup_device(dev)) {
>>                 kfree(dev);
>>                 return NULL;
>>         }
>>
>> so if pci_setup_device fails, there is one dev reference is not release.
>>
>> please check you can just move down pci_set_of_node down after that
>> failing path, like
>>
>>
>>         if (pci_setup_device(dev)) {
>>                 kfree(dev);
>>                 return NULL;
>>         }
>>
>>         pci_set_of_node(dev);
>
> No, we want the OF node set when we run the quirks, we intentionally do
> that early, the right thing to do is to to call pci_release_of_node()
> in the error path (it's safe to call even if the node is NULL).
>

Good.

We have two options.
1. can you please submit one complete patch, and get it merged into v3.10.
2. put it together with pci_alloc_dev patchset towards to v3.11?

Thanks

Yinghai