Re: [PATCH] of/fdt: NULL-terminate the root node path

[Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 03:14:38PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Ah, this shouldn't have been here. git commit -c set the author as well.

> Commit 509b7455 (of/fdt: Don't copy garbage after "/" in root node path)
> sets the path length to 0 to ignore any garbage after "/" in the root
> node path. This has the side effect of also ignoring '\0' at the end of
> the root node path. This patch sets the ignores the garbage by setting
> the last character to '\0' and length to 1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
> ---
> 
> The patch is against linux-next, not sure whether mainline will get the
> same commit number. Please feel free to fold it into the original patch,
> whichever is easier. Without this I can't boot arm64, doesn't populate
> the platform devices.
> 
>  drivers/of/fdt.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c
> index 73fb8c0..d9b2207 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
> @@ -186,7 +186,8 @@ static unsigned long unflatten_dt_node(struct boot_param_header *blob,
>  			 */
>  			fpsize = 1;
>  			allocl = 2;
> -			l = 0;
> +			l = 1;
> +			*pathp = '\0';
>  		} else {
>  			/* account for '/' and path size minus terminal 0
>  			 * already in 'l'