On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 17:50 +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote: > When find_and_init_phbs() looks for the probe-only property, it seems > to trust the firmware to be correctly written, and assumes that there > is a parameter to the property. > > It is conceivable that the firmware could not be that perfect, and it > could expose this property naked (at least one arm64 platform seems to > exhibit this exact behaviour). The setup code the ends up making > a decision based on whatever the property pointer points to, which > is likely to be junk. > > Instead, switch to the common of_pci.c implementation that doesn't > suffer from this problem and ignore the property if the firmware > couldn't make up its mind. > > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> > --- > arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c | 14 ++------------ Thanks. I can't find any powerpc machine that is currently using this, or much info on what ever did use it, so I think it's pretty low impact, and the change looks sane. Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> cheers -- 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
