[PATCH] Use of_get_next_child() in k2_sata_proc_info()

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Oct 24 15:01:57 EST 2007


On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 14:25 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> k2_sata_proc_info() uses its own hand-rolled loop to check a nodes
> children for a property, this is not safe WRT refcounting, so fix it
> to use of_get_next_child().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au>

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>

(Pending you test boot it on one of our G5s first !)

> ---
>  drivers/ata/sata_svw.c |    5 ++++-
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/ata/sata_svw.c b/drivers/ata/sata_svw.c
> index 12d613c..64c3812 100644
> --- a/drivers/ata/sata_svw.c
> +++ b/drivers/ata/sata_svw.c
> @@ -289,7 +289,10 @@ static int k2_sata_proc_info(struct Scsi_Host *shost, char *page, char **start,
>  
>  	/* Match it to a port node */
>  	index = (ap == ap->host->ports[0]) ? 0 : 1;
> -	for (np = np->child; np != NULL; np = np->sibling) {
> +
> +	for (np = of_get_next_child(np, NULL);
> +	     np != NULL;
> +	     np = of_get_next_child(np, np)) {
>  		const u32 *reg = of_get_property(np, "reg", NULL);
>  		if (!reg)
>  			continue;




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