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From: David Gibson <david-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@public.gmane.org>
To: Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Cc: devicetree-compiler-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dtc: Fix NULL pointer use in dtlabel + dtref case
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 15:48:46 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170130044846.GE14757@umbus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170125192724.11989-1-stephen.boyd-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>

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On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:27:24AM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> If we have a construct like this:
> 
> 	label: &handle {
> 		...
> 	};
> 
> Running dtc on it will cause a segfault, because we use 'target'
> when it could be NULL. Move the add_label() call into the if
> statement to fix this potentially bad use of a NULL pointer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>

Looks good, but could you please add a testcase, so we don't make the
same mistake in future.

> ---
>  dtc-parser.y | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/dtc-parser.y b/dtc-parser.y
> index b2fd4d155839..ca3f5003427c 100644
> --- a/dtc-parser.y
> +++ b/dtc-parser.y
> @@ -171,10 +171,10 @@ devicetree:
>  		{
>  			struct node *target = get_node_by_ref($1, $3);
>  
> -			add_label(&target->labels, $2);
> -			if (target)
> +			if (target) {
> +				add_label(&target->labels, $2);
>  				merge_nodes(target, $4);
> -			else
> +			} else
>  				ERROR(&@3, "Label or path %s not found", $3);
>  			$$ = $1;
>  		}

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-30  4:48 UTC|newest]

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2017-01-25 19:27 [PATCH] dtc: Fix NULL pointer use in dtlabel + dtref case Stephen Boyd
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2017-01-30  4:48   ` David Gibson [this message]

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