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authorWladislav Wiebe <wladislav.kw@gmail.com>2013-08-12 13:06:53 +0200
committerRob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>2013-08-21 20:05:49 -0500
commit9e40127526e857fa3f29d51e83277204fbdfc6ba (patch)
treec7f94d005ddfa9edbc41feabb2bf44f651af633f /drivers/of/fdt.c
parentd4e4ab86bcba5a72779c43dc1459f71fea3d89c8 (diff)
downloadlinux-9e40127526e857fa3f29d51e83277204fbdfc6ba.tar.gz
of: fdt: fix memory initialization for expanded DT
Already existing property flags are filled wrong for properties created from
initial FDT. This could cause problems if this DYNAMIC device-tree functions
are used later, i.e. properties are attached/detached/replaced. Simply dumping
flags from the running system show, that some initial static (not allocated via
kzmalloc()) nodes are marked as dynamic.

I putted some debug extensions to property_proc_show(..) :
..
+       if (OF_IS_DYNAMIC(pp))
+               pr_err("DEBUG: xxx : OF_IS_DYNAMIC\n");
+       if (OF_IS_DETACHED(pp))
+               pr_err("DEBUG: xxx : OF_IS_DETACHED\n");

when you operate on the nodes (e.g.: ~$ cat /proc/device-tree/*some_node*) you
will see that those flags are filled wrong, basically in most cases it will dump
a DYNAMIC or DETACHED status, which is in not true.
(BTW. this OF_IS_DETACHED is a own define for debug purposes which which just
make a test_bit(OF_DETACHED, &x->_flags)

If nodes are dynamic kernel is allowed to kfree() them. But it will crash
attempting to do so on the nodes from FDT -- they are not allocated via
kzmalloc().

Signed-off-by: Wladislav Wiebe <wladislav.kw@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nsn.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/of/fdt.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/of/fdt.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c
index 6bb7cf2de556..b10ba00cc3e6 100644
--- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
+++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
@@ -392,6 +392,8 @@ static void __unflatten_device_tree(struct boot_param_header *blob,
 	mem = (unsigned long)
 		dt_alloc(size + 4, __alignof__(struct device_node));
 
+	memset((void *)mem, 0, size);
+
 	((__be32 *)mem)[size / 4] = cpu_to_be32(0xdeadbeef);
 
 	pr_debug("  unflattening %lx...\n", mem);