Re: [PATCH] of: Split up name & type in modalias generation

[Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>]

On 09/07/18 11:49, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 9:22 AM Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
>>
>> The kernel's vsnprintf() implementation discards all alpha-numeric
>> characters following a %p conversion specifier. This is done in order to
>> generically skip any of the various modifiers that the kernel supports.
>> Unfortunately, the OF modalias is generated with a format string that
>> violates the assumption made by vsnprintf():
>>
>>         of:N%pOFnT%s
>>
>> While processing the above format string, vsnprintf() will eat the 'T'
>> character, assuming that it belongs to the preceeding %p specifier. This
>> results in a modalias with an incompatible format, which in turn causes
>> the automatic loading of drivers based on modalias to no longer work.
>>
>> To fix this, split up the generation of the name & type fields into two
>> separate snprintf() calls to avoid confusing the parser.
>>
>> Fixes: 73813f8483b1 ("of: Convert to using %pOFn instead of device_node.name")
>> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
>> ---
>> Note that a more elegant fix would be to make the %p format specifier
>> parser report back the exact number of characters consumed. I briefly
>> tried to implement it, but quickly ran into numerous special cases
>> that make this solution rather involved.
>>
>> I can spend some more time to improve this in general if that's what we
>> ultimately want, but I think this patch is a better short-term fix to
>> workaround the issue.
> 
> See my reply on the original patch. I've updated the patch in my
> dt/next branch with the fix to use %c.
> 
> Rob
> 

Agreed, your updated patch is more compact and looks cleaner.

-Frank