On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 01:36:57PM -0400, Rhyland Klein wrote:
> When the implementation for unflatten_dt_node() changed from being
> recursive to being non-recursive, it had a side effect of increasing the
> depth passed to fdt_next_node() by 1. This is fine most of the time, but
> it seems that when the end of the dtb is being parsed, it will cause the
> FDT_END condition in fdt_next_node() to return a different value
> (returning nextoffset instead of -FDT_ERR_NOTFOUND). This ends up passing
> an FDT_ERR_TRUNCATED error back to the unflatten_dt_node() which then
> sees that and complains "Error -8 processing FDT" causing boot to fail.
>
> This patch simply avoids incrementing depth and uses modified accesses
> for local array indices so that the depth is the same as it was before
> the change as far as fdt_next_node() is concerned.
>
> This problem was discovered trying to boot Tegra210-Smaug platforms.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 9ffa9eb41763 ("drivers/of: Avoid recursively calling unflatten_dt_node()")
> Signed-off-by: Rhyland Klein <rklein@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/of/fdt.c | 16 ++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
Applied, thanks.
Rob
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