In D32589#735603, @kib wrote:

I wonder if it makes more sense to check for dev != NULL at the beginning of pci_find_pcie_root_port()

Hmm, I looked at the panic backtrace again and technically the NULL pointer dereference happens in device_get_parent called form pci_find_pcie_root_port.
Now the question is whether we should do sanity checks inside functions exposed as KAPI, or is it the caller responsibility to make sure that the arguments they provide are sane.
I'm not sure what the convention is here.

In D32589#735683, @rlibby wrote:

A NULL check seems like a clear improvement over a crash.

So, does that mean we need to make the PCIe root port reservation at a later time in that case? Or do we know the PCIe root port from the passed in BSF? If so we could add a different lookup method here. We need to ensure somehow that those IOMMU virtual addresses are not allocated.

I'm not sure if this is not a chicken-and-egg kind of problem, hence this patch.
Finding the root port with DBSF only is one thing, but can we even assume that it has been enumerated at this point?

In D32589#735813, @mindal_semihalf.com wrote:

In D32589#735603, @kib wrote:

I wonder if it makes more sense to check for dev != NULL at the beginning of pci_find_pcie_root_port()

Hmm, I looked at the panic backtrace again and technically the NULL pointer dereference happens in device_get_parent called form pci_find_pcie_root_port.
Now the question is whether we should do sanity checks inside functions exposed as KAPI, or is it the caller responsibility to make sure that the arguments they provide are sane.
I'm not sure what the convention is here.

It is about making the pci_find_pcie_root_port() more useful, perhaps.

In D32589#735683, @rlibby wrote:

A NULL check seems like a clear improvement over a crash.

So, does that mean we need to make the PCIe root port reservation at a later time in that case? Or do we know the PCIe root port from the passed in BSF? If so we could add a different lookup method here. We need to ensure somehow that those IOMMU virtual addresses are not allocated.

I'm not sure if this is not a chicken-and-egg kind of problem, hence this patch.
Finding the root port with DBSF only is one thing, but can we even assume that it has been enumerated at this point?

Note that for the newbus initialization, we usually come from root down to the devices. DMARs do not participate in the parent/children relations there, but logically they are located before the root ports. So in principle DMARs should be initialized before anything in PCIe domain below it, and this is logical, because device attach might already need to start some DMA transfer. So probably regions reservation indeed should be moved later to the moment where ports are enumerated, at least.