Re: [PATCH v2] commands: of_property: copy value instead of resizing

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On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 04:09:46PM +0000, Oleg.Karfich@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Commit 748d1b8 adds the fixup feature to the above command. With this commit an
> unwanted free(data) on the freshly set property value is done if someone tries
> to set the value of an already present property (not the case for a new
> property). Furthermore in fixup mode the pointer fixup->data is freed when the
> fixup function is called more than once. This leads to a hanging system after
> calling of_dump -F many times.
> Fix this issues by copying the data to a new allocated memory area like a new
> property is created.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Karfich <oleg.karfich@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Changes in v2:
> 
>         - slightly different solution like in [1]
>         - consider memory leak when a new property is created. Noted in [2]
>         - also consider hanging system when oftree -F is used
> 
> [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/barebox/2018-August/034444.html
> [2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/barebox/2018-August/034446.html
> 
> ---
>  commands/of_property.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks

Sascha

> 
> diff --git a/commands/of_property.c b/commands/of_property.c
> index d0b923f..31e9b71 100644
> --- a/commands/of_property.c
> +++ b/commands/of_property.c
> @@ -270,9 +270,8 @@ static int do_of_property_set_now(struct device_node *root, const char *path,
>  		free(pp->value);
>  		pp->value_const = NULL;
>  
> -		/* limit property data to the actual size */
>  		if (len)
> -			pp->value = xrealloc(data, len);
> +			pp->value = xmemdup(data, len);
>  		else
>  			pp->value = NULL;
>  
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
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