On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 10:28:45PM -0500, frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxx>
>
> fdt_get_name() returns error values via a parameter pointer
> instead of in function return. Fix check for this error value
> in populate_node() and callers of populate_node().
>
> Chasing up the caller tree showed callers of various functions
> failing to initialize the value of pointer parameters that
> can return error values. Initialize those values to NULL.
>
> The bug was introduced by
> commit e6a6928c3ea1 ("of/fdt: Convert FDT functions to use libfdt")
> but this patch can not be backported directly to that commit
> because the relevant code has further been restructured by
> commit dfbd4c6eff35 ("drivers/of: Split unflatten_dt_node()")
>
> The bug became visible by triggering a crash on openrisc with:
> commit 79edff12060f ("scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.6.0-51-g183df9e9c2b9")
> as reported in:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210327224116.69309-1-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Fixes: commit 79edff12060f ("scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.6.0-51-g183df9e9c2b9")
> Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> This patch papers over the unaligned pointer passed to
> of_fdt_unflatten_tree() bug that Guenter reported in
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210327224116.69309-1-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> I will create a separate patch to fix that problem.
Got an ETA for that?
Rob
