From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Fainelli Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/9] net: bcmgenet: fix OF child-node lookup Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 17:47:33 -0700 Message-ID: <683bdf11-a662-d17e-8bc5-b3cfd238e463@gmail.com> References: <20180827082153.22537-1-johan@kernel.org> <20180827082153.22537-7-johan@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20180827082153.22537-7-johan@kernel.org> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Johan Hovold , Rob Herring , Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Frank Rowand , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable , "David S . Miller" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 08/27/2018 01:21 AM, Johan Hovold wrote: > Use the new of_get_compatible_child() helper to lookup the mdio child > node instead of using of_find_compatible_node(), which searches the > entire tree from a given start node and thus can return an unrelated > (i.e. non-child) node. > > This also addresses a potential use-after-free (e.g. after probe > deferral) as the tree-wide helper drops a reference to its first > argument (i.e. the node of the device being probed). > > Fixes: aa09677cba42 ("net: bcmgenet: add MDIO routines") > Cc: stable # 3.15 > Cc: Florian Fainelli > Cc: David S. Miller > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli -- Florian