Re: [PATCH 4.14 58/62] mtd: rawnand: atmel: fix OF child-node lookup

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-11-26T15:14:26Z

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 04:08:40PM +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 19:46:15 +0530
> Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> > Do you see build failure arm x15 beagleboard on 4.14 due to this patch ?
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 at 16:31, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > 4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > >
> > > ------------------
> > >
> > > From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
> > >
> > > commit 5d1e9c2212ea6b4dd735e4fc3dd6279a365d5d10 upstream.
> > >
> > > Use the new of_get_compatible_child() helper to lookup the nfc 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).
> > >
> > > While at it, also fix a related nfc-node reference leak.
> > >
> > > Fixes: f88fc122cc34 ("mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver")
> > > Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.11
> > > Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>
> > > Cc: Josh Wu <rainyfeeling@outlook.com>
> > > Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > >
> > > ---
> > > drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/nand-controller.c | 11 +++++++----
> > > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/nand-controller.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/nand-controller.c
> > > @@ -2077,8 +2077,7 @@ atmel_hsmc_nand_controller_legacy_init(s
> > > int ret;
> > >
> > > nand_np = dev->of_node;
> > > - nfc_np = of_find_compatible_node(dev->of_node, NULL,
> > > - "atmel,sama5d3-nfc");
> > > + nfc_np = of_get_compatible_child(dev->of_node, "atmel,sama5d3-nfc");
> > > if (!nfc_np) {
> > > dev_err(dev, "Could not find device node for sama5d3-nfc\n");
> > > return -ENODEV;
> > > @@ -2492,15 +2491,19 @@ static int atmel_nand_controller_probe(s
> > > }
> > >
> > > if (caps->legacy_of_bindings) {
> > > + struct device_node *nfc_node;
> > > u32 ale_offs = 21;
> > >
> > > /*
> > > * If we are parsing legacy DT props and the DT contains a
> > > * valid NFC node, forward the request to the sama5 logic.
> > > */
> > > - if (of_find_compatible_node(pdev->dev.of_node, NULL,
> > > - "atmel,sama5d3-nfc"))
> > > + nfc_node = of_get_compatible_child(pdev->dev.of_node,
> > > + "atmel,sama5d3-nfc");
> > > + if (nfc_node) {
> > > caps = &atmel_sama5_nand_caps;
> > > + of_node_put(nfc_node);
> > > + }
> > >
> > > /*
> > > * Even if the compatible says we are dealing with an
> > >
> > >
> >
> > /drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/nand-controller.c: In function
> > 'atmel_hsmc_nand_controller_legacy_init':
> > /drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/nand-controller.c:2080:11: error: implicit
> > declaration of function 'of_get_compatible_child'; did you mean
> > 'of_get_next_available_child'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> > nfc_np = of_get_compatible_child(dev->of_node, "atmel,sama5d3-nfc");
>
> Looks like of_get_compatible_child() has been introduced in 4.18, hence
> this error.
>
> Greg, can you drop this patch from 4.14.y?

Yes, my fault, I fixed a number of these in the past, missed this one :(

Now dropped.

greg k-h