On (08/27/17 16:19), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: [..] > int uart_parse_earlycon(char *p, unsigned char *iotype, resource_size_t *addr, > char **options) > { > if (strncmp(p, "mmio,", 5) == 0) { > *iotype = UPIO_MEM; > p += 5; > } else if (strncmp(p, "mmio16,", 7) == 0) { > *iotype = UPIO_MEM16; > p += 7; > } else if (strncmp(p, "mmio32,", 7) == 0) { > *iotype = UPIO_MEM32; > p += 7; > } else if (strncmp(p, "mmio32be,", 9) == 0) { > *iotype = UPIO_MEM32BE; > p += 9; > } else if (strncmp(p, "mmio32native,", 13) == 0) { > *iotype = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) ? > UPIO_MEM32BE : UPIO_MEM32; > p += 13; > } else if (strncmp(p, "io,", 3) == 0) { > *iotype = UPIO_PORT; > p += 3; > } else if (strncmp(p, "0x", 2) == 0) { > *iotype = UPIO_MEM; > } else { > return -EINVAL; > } > > /* > * Before you replace it with kstrtoull(), think about options separator > * (',') it will not tolerate > */ > *addr = simple_strtoull(p, NULL, 0); > p = strchr(p, ','); > if (p) > p++; > > *options = p; > return 0; > } > > that's just one example I found after a very quick grepping. may be > there are other control paths that can change ->options. well, obviously, it doesn't change the options per se, but it sort of demonstrates that _probably_ somewhere ->options could be changed. on the other hand, that ->options = ->options + X makes it rather hard to kfree() the ->options. well, we never kfree() the ->options anyway, as far as I can tell... -ss -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html