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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: libfdt: Fix use of uninitialized variable in fdt_get_path()
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:30:16 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070831043016.GM19271@localhost.localdomain> (raw)

My recent implemenetation of fdt_get_path() had a bug - the while loop
tested offset which was unitialized on the first iteration.  Depending
on code surrounding the call, this could cause fdt_get_path() to
return incorrect results.

This patch corrects the problem by applying some more correct thinking
to the loop condition.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

Index: dtc/libfdt/fdt_ro.c
===================================================================
--- dtc.orig/libfdt/fdt_ro.c	2007-08-31 14:26:26.000000000 +1000
+++ dtc/libfdt/fdt_ro.c	2007-08-31 14:26:31.000000000 +1000
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@
 	buf[0] = '/';
 	p = 1;
 
-	while (offset < nodeoffset) {
+	while (nextoffset <= nodeoffset) {
 		offset = nextoffset;
 		tag = _fdt_next_tag(fdt, offset, &nextoffset);
 		switch (tag) {

-- 
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             reply	other threads:[~2007-08-31  4:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-31  4:30 David Gibson [this message]
2007-08-31 13:38 ` libfdt: Fix use of uninitialized variable in fdt_get_path() Jon Loeliger

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