Re: PCI: fix an oops in some pci devices on hotplug remove when their resources are being freed.

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On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 03:47:50PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> PCI: fix an oops in some pci devices on hotplug remove when their resources are being freed.
> 
> As reported by Prarit Bhargava <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> 
> diff -Nru a/drivers/pci/remove.c b/drivers/pci/remove.c
>  	for (i = 0; i < PCI_NUM_RESOURCES; i++) {
>  		struct resource *res = dev->resource + i;
> -		if (res->parent)
> +		if (res && res->parent)
>  			release_resource(res);

I can't believe this fixes anything.  How can res possibly be NULL here?
It's a pointer into a pci_dev.

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