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From: Wladislav Wiebe <wladislav.kw@gmail.com>
To: grant.likely@linaro.org, rob.herring@calxeda.com,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] of: fdt: fix memory initialization for expanded DT
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 13:00:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5208C04A.5000303@gmail.com> (raw)

Already existing property flags are filled wrong for properties created from
initial FDT. This could cause problems if this DYNAMIC device-tree functions
are used later, i.e. properties are attached/detached/replaced. Simply dumping
flags from the running system show, that some initial static (not allocated via
kzmalloc()) nodes are marked as dynamic.

I putted some debug extensions to property_proc_show(..) :
..
+       if (OF_IS_DYNAMIC(pp))
+               pr_err("DEBUG: xxx : OF_IS_DYNAMIC\n");
+       if (OF_IS_DETACHED(pp))
+               pr_err("DEBUG: xxx : OF_IS_DETACHED\n");

when you operate on the nodes (e.g.: ~$ cat /proc/device-tree/*some_node*) you
will see that those flags are filled wrong, basically in most cases it will dump
a DYNAMIC or DETACHED status, which is in not true.
(BTW. this OF_IS_DETACHED is a own define for debug purposes which which just
make a test_bit(OF_DETACHED, &x->_flags)

If nodes are dynamic kernel is allowed to kfree() them. But it will crash
attempting to do so on the nodes from FDT -- they are not allocated via
kzmalloc().

Signed-off-by: Wladislav Wiebe <wladislav.kw@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/of/fdt.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c
index 6bb7cf2..b10ba00 100644
--- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
+++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
@@ -392,6 +392,8 @@ static void __unflatten_device_tree(struct boot_param_header *blob,
 	mem = (unsigned long)
 		dt_alloc(size + 4, __alignof__(struct device_node));

+	memset((void *)mem, 0, size);
+
 	((__be32 *)mem)[size / 4] = cpu_to_be32(0xdeadbeef);

 	pr_debug("  unflattening %lx...\n", mem);
-- 
1.7.1




             reply	other threads:[~2013-08-12 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-12 11:00 Wladislav Wiebe [this message]
2013-08-16 12:30 ` [PATCH 1/1] of: fdt: fix memory initialization for expanded DT Alexander Sverdlin
2013-08-28 20:21 ` Grant Likely
2013-08-28 20:24   ` Grant Likely

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