From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753546AbeEHARD (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2018 20:17:03 -0400 Received: from mail-pl0-f68.google.com ([209.85.160.68]:46954 "EHLO mail-pl0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753149AbeEHARB (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2018 20:17:01 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AB8JxZrWHxMxXdaQS4jLVjz+LWeaBg89Hr2a7PnY47YQWwQ7oGhH1es4qXbNSnQfXNeBOQJZLqY6Vw== Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: add keyword for devicetree overlay notifiers From: Frank Rowand To: Rob Herring , pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com, Pantelis Antoniou Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kiszka References: <1524879080-27111-1-git-send-email-frowand.list@gmail.com> Message-ID: <0d6a7e46-f659-ae6d-c25d-978f17aa2e63@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 17:16:59 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1524879080-27111-1-git-send-email-frowand.list@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Rob, Do you want to take this or should I route it through Andrew? -Frank On 04/27/18 18:31, 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 > > > MAINTAINERS | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index 92be777d060a..aca3956694f8 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -10422,12 +10422,14 @@ F: drivers/infiniband/ulp/opa_vnic > > OPEN FIRMWARE AND DEVICE TREE OVERLAYS > M: Pantelis Antoniou > +M: Frank Rowand > L: devicetree@vger.kernel.org > S: Maintained > F: Documentation/devicetree/dynamic-resolution-notes.txt > F: Documentation/devicetree/overlay-notes.txt > F: drivers/of/overlay.c > F: drivers/of/resolver.c > +K: of_overlay_notifier_ > > OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE > M: Rob Herring >