This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nvmem: core: skip child nodes not matching binding to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: nvmem-core-skip-child-nodes-not-matching-binding.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 117fbc15bab38cdc70a8ba3f293c42f5844f2d89 Author: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jan 29 17:14:30 2021 +0000 nvmem: core: skip child nodes not matching binding [ Upstream commit 0445efacec75b85c2a3c176957ee050ba9be53f0 ] The nvmem cell binding applies to all eeprom child nodes matching "^.*@[0-9a-f]+$" without taking a compatible into account. Linux drivers, like at24, are even more extensive and assume _all_ at24 eeprom child nodes to be nvmem cells since e888d445ac33 ("nvmem: resolve cells from DT at registration time"). Since df5f3b6f5357 ("dt-bindings: nvmem: stm32: new property for data access"), the additionalProperties: True means it's Ok to have other properties as long as they don't match "^.*@[0-9a-f]+$". The barebox bootloader extends the MTD partitions binding to EEPROM and can fix up following device tree node: &eeprom { partitions { compatible = "fixed-partitions"; }; }; This is allowed binding-wise, but drivers using nvmem_register() like at24 will fail to parse because the function expects all child nodes to have a reg property present. This results in the whole EEPROM driver probe failing despite the device tree being correct. Fix this by skipping nodes lacking a reg property instead of returning an error. This effectively makes the drivers adhere to the binding because all nodes with a unit address must have a reg property and vice versa. Fixes: e888d445ac33 ("nvmem: resolve cells from DT at registration time"). Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210129171430.11328-6-srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c index 1a3460a8e73ab..9b6ab83956c3b 100644 --- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c +++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c @@ -545,7 +545,9 @@ static int nvmem_add_cells_from_of(struct nvmem_device *nvmem) for_each_child_of_node(parent, child) { addr = of_get_property(child, "reg", &len); - if (!addr || (len < 2 * sizeof(u32))) { + if (!addr) + continue; + if (len < 2 * sizeof(u32)) { dev_err(dev, "nvmem: invalid reg on %pOF\n", child); return -EINVAL; }