[PATCH 1/5] powerpc/pseries: extract of_helpers module

[Segher Boessenkool]

Hi Andy,

On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 05:36:45PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> +struct device_node *pseries_of_derive_parent(const char *path)
> +{
> +	struct device_node *parent = NULL;
> +	char *parent_path = "/";
> +	size_t parent_path_len = strrchr(path, '/') - path + 1;
> +
> +	/* reject if path is "/" */
> +	if (!strcmp(path, "/"))
> +		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> +
> +	if (strrchr(path, '/') != path) {
> +		parent_path = kmalloc(parent_path_len, GFP_KERNEL);

If path doesn't contain any slash this will do interesting things;
you might want to fix that too while you're at it :-)


Segher