The arch_teardown_msi_irqs() function assumes that controller ops pointers were already checked in arch_setup_msi_irqs(), but this assumption is wrong: arch_teardown_msi_irqs() can be called even when arch_setup_msi_irqs() returns an error (-ENOSYS).
This can happen in the following scenario: * msi_capability_init() calls pci_msi_setup_msi_irqs() * pci_msi_setup_msi_irqs() returns -ENOSYS * msi_capability_init() notices the error and calls free_msi_irqs() * free_msi_irqs() calls pci_msi_teardown_msi_irqs() This is easier to see when CONFIG_PCI_MSI_IRQ_DOMAIN is not set and pci_msi_setup_msi_irqs() and pci_msi_teardown_msi_irqs() are just aliases to arch_setup_msi_irqs() and arch_teardown_msi_irqs(). The call to free_msi_irqs() upon pci_msi_setup_msi_irqs() failure seems legit, as it does additional cleanup; e.g. list_del(&entry->list) and kfree(entry) inside free_msi_irqs() do happen (MSI descriptors are allocated before pci_msi_setup_msi_irqs() is called and need to be cleaned up if that fails). Signed-off-by: Radu Rendec <radu.ren...@gmail.com> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/msi.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/msi.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/msi.c index dab616a33b8d..83c2043cc685 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/msi.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/msi.c @@ -34,5 +34,12 @@ void arch_teardown_msi_irqs(struct pci_dev *dev) { struct pci_controller *phb = pci_bus_to_host(dev->bus); - phb->controller_ops.teardown_msi_irqs(dev); + /* + * We can be called even when arch_setup_msi_irqs() returns -ENOSYS, + * so check the pointer again. Example: msi_capability_init() calls + * pci_msi_setup_msi_irqs(), then free_msi_irqs(), which in turn calls + * pci_msi_teardown_msi_irqs(). + */ + if (phb->controller_ops.teardown_msi_irqs) + phb->controller_ops.teardown_msi_irqs(dev); } -- 2.17.2