From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rob Herring Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: add keyword for devicetree overlay notifiers Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 13:31:40 -0500 Message-ID: <20180509183140.GA11580@rob-hp-laptop> References: <1524879080-27111-1-git-send-email-frowand.list@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1524879080-27111-1-git-send-email-frowand.list@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: frowand.list@gmail.com Cc: pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com, Pantelis Antoniou , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kiszka List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 06:31:20PM -0700, frowand.list@gmail.com wrote: > From: Frank Rowand > > Devicetree overlay notifiers have a chance to potentially get > pointers into the overlay unflattened devicetree and overlay FDT. > The only protection against these pointers being accessed after > the underlying data has been released by kfree() is by source > code review of patches. Add a keyword line to the devicetree > overlay maintainers entry to try to catch overlay notifier > related patches. > > The keyword line is added to the devicetree overlay entry instead > of the devicetree entry so that not all maintainers will receive > the additional review traffic. Add Frank Rowand (already a > maintainer in the devicetree entry) so that he will receive > the additional review traffic. > > Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand > --- > > changes from version 1: > - removed extraneous "From:" tags at top of patch description Applied, sorry it fell thru the cracks. Rob