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Subject[PATCH] Fix NULL pointer for Xen guests
Upstream PV guests fail to boot because of a NULL pointer.  It is possible that
xen guests have irq_desc->chip_data = NULL.

Test for NULL chip_data pointer before attempting to complete an irq move.

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
index 127b871..eb2789c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
@@ -2545,6 +2545,9 @@ void irq_force_complete_move(int irq)
struct irq_desc *desc = irq_to_desc(irq);
struct irq_cfg *cfg = desc->chip_data;

+ if (!cfg)
+ return;
+
__irq_complete_move(&desc, cfg->vector);
}
#else

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