From: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] powerpc/pseries: Correct string length in pseries_of_derive_parent()
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 10:46:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <562F9C67.3040207@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
Commit a030e1e4bbd085bbcfd0a23f8d355fcd41f39bed make a change to use
kstrndup() instead of kmalloc() + strlcpy() in the pseries_of_derive_parent()
routine that introduces a subtle change in the parent path name generated.
The kstrndup() routine will copy n characters followed by a terminating null,
whereas strlcpy() will copy n-1 characters and add a terminating null.
This slight difference results in having a parent path that includes the
tailing '/' character, "/cpus/" vs. "/cpus". This then causes the subsequent
call to of_find_node_by_path() to fail, and in the case of DLPAR add
operations the DLPAR request fails.
This patch decrements the pointer returned from kbasename() to point to the
'/' character before the base name instead of the base name. This then
adjusts the string length calculations to not include the trailing '/'
in the parent path name.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
Updates for v2: Decrement the pointer returned from kbasename() instead
of subtracting 1 when calculating the string length.
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/of_helpers.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/of_helpers.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/of_helpers.c
index 4417afe..2798933 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/of_helpers.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/of_helpers.c
@@ -17,13 +17,16 @@ struct device_node *pseries_of_derive_parent(const char *path)
{
struct device_node *parent;
char *parent_path = "/";
- const char *tail = kbasename(path);
+ const char *tail;
+
+ /* We do not want the trailing '/' character */
+ tail = kbasename(path) - 1;
/* reject if path is "/" */
if (!strcmp(path, "/"))
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
- if (tail > path + 1) {
+ if (tail > path) {
parent_path = kstrndup(path, tail - path, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!parent_path)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
next reply other threads:[~2015-10-27 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-27 15:46 Nathan Fontenot [this message]
2015-10-27 15:52 ` [PATCH v2] powerpc/pseries: Correct string length in pseries_of_derive_parent() Andy Shevchenko
2015-11-02 9:41 ` [v2] " Michael Ellerman
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