Hello Pantelis,
On 07/11/13 21:17, ext Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> Introduce helper functions for working with the live DT tree.
>
> __of_free_property() frees a dynamically created property
> __of_free_tree() recursively frees a device node tree
> __of_copy_property() copies a property dynamically
> __of_create_empty_node() creates an empty node
> __of_find_node_by_full_name() finds the node with the full name
> and
> of_multi_prop_cmp() performs a multi property compare but without
> having to take locks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou <pa...@antoniou-consulting.com>
> ---
> drivers/of/Makefile | 2 +-
> drivers/of/util.c | 253
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/of.h | 59 ++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 313 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/of/util.c
>
...
> +struct property *__of_copy_property(const struct property *prop, gfp_t flags)
> +{
> + struct property *propn;
> +
> + propn = kzalloc(sizeof(*prop), flags);
> + if (propn == NULL)
> + return NULL;
> +
> + propn->name = kstrdup(prop->name, flags);
> + if (propn->name == NULL)
> + goto err_fail_name;
> +
> + if (prop->length > 0) {
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
As Ioan already mentioned, this is really a problem.
There is a bunch of places, where properties without values are used.
Like gpio-controller; ranges; interrupt-controller;
Refer, for example, to of_irq_map_raw() which checks
of_get_property(ipar, "interrupt-controller", NULL) != NULL
and some other occurrences of exactly same construct.
This will simply be broken for merged device-tree parts.
> + propn->value = kmalloc(prop->length, flags);
> + if (propn->value == NULL)
> + goto err_fail_value;
> + memcpy(propn->value, prop->value, prop->length);
> + propn->length = prop->length;
> + }
> +
> + /* mark the property as dynamic */
> + of_property_set_flag(propn, OF_DYNAMIC);
> +
> + return propn;
> +
> +err_fail_value:
> + kfree(propn->name);
> +err_fail_name:
> + kfree(propn);
> + return NULL;
> +}
> +
...
--
Best regards,
Alexander Sverdlin.
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