On Sun 2017-08-27 16:19:10, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> Hello,
>
> (Cc Andrew, Grant)
>
> On (08/25/17 17:37), Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 02:36:47AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > > If add_preferred_console() returns error then we must free a
> > > copy of `of_stdout_options' that we create right before the
> > > console registration.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/of/base.c | 11 +++++++++--
> > > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/of/base.c b/drivers/of/base.c
> > > index 260d33c0f26c..9fcf7011d206 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/of/base.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/of/base.c
> > > @@ -1779,10 +1779,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_alias_get_highest_id);
> > > */
> > > bool of_console_check(struct device_node *dn, char *name, int index)
> > > {
> > > + bool ret;
> > > + char *options;
> > > +
> > > if (!dn || dn != of_stdout || console_set_on_cmdline)
> > > return false;
> > > - return !add_preferred_console(name, index,
> > > - kstrdup(of_stdout_options, GFP_KERNEL));
> > > +
> > > + options = kstrdup(of_stdout_options, GFP_KERNEL);
> >
> > The real question is why are we doing the kstrdup in the first place.
>
> I wouldn't know :) let's find that out
>
> the patch used to pass `of_stdout_options' in v1 and v2
> https://patches.linaro.org/patch/41559/
>
> starting from v3 options are kstrdup-ed
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5398761/
I was curious. The const char * was suggested by Grant Likely,
see https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACxGe6tQ5rWzCUcS+_fFY+rjEyua2khApAoCVKpTuJAghU=N_w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I guess that the reason was to make the of_find_node_by_path()
API clean.
> > AFAICT, the only reason is options within the console/printk code is a
> > char * and not a const char *. I can't imagine that options need
> > modifications?
>
> as far as I can tell, ->match callback has side efects, sometimes.
I hope that the match() callbacks does not have this kind of side
effects. I think that they initialize some stuff, assign some values.
But I hope that they do not modify given strings, like console
name or options. At leats I am unable to find any place.
But I am not 100% sure.
Sigh, the console code really needs clean up.
Best Regards,
Petr
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