[U-Boot] [PATCH 5/5] fit: Introduce methods for applying overlays on fit-load

["Lothar Waßmann" <LW@KARO-electronics.de>]

Hi,

On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 00:19:28 +0200 stefan.bruens at rwth-aachen.de wrote:
> On Dienstag, 4. Juli 2017 19:05:25 CEST Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> > Hi Marek,
> > 
> > On Sat, 2017-07-01 at 16:11 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > On 06/30/2017 06:23 PM, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> > > > Introduce an overlay based method for constructing a base DT blob
> > > > to pass to the kernel.
> > > > 
> > > > Both canned and runtime feature selection is supported.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com>
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > > @@ -1475,29 +1482,58 @@ int fit_conf_get_node(const void *fit, const
> > > > char *conf_uname)> > 
> > > >  		debug("Found default configuration: '%s'\n", conf_uname);
> > > >  	
> > > >  	}
> > > > 
> > > > +	s = strchr(conf_uname, '#');
> > > > +	if (s) {
> > > > +		len = s - conf_uname;
> > > > +		conf_uname_copy = malloc(len + 1);
> > > > +		if (!conf_uname_copy) {
> > > > +			debug("Can't allocate uname copy: '%s'\n",
> > > > +					conf_uname);
> > > > +			return -ENOMEM;
> > > > +		}
> > > > +		memcpy(conf_uname_copy, conf_uname, len);
> > > 
> > > Is that like strdup() here ?
> > 
> > No. The space allocated is not the full string, just the span until the
> > next #.
> 
> You could use strndup() to copy only the first n characters.
>  
or strsep() to tokenize (a copy of) the original string.
IMO using strdup() and strsep() makes the intent of this function
clearer, than the current code. 


Lothar Waßmann