[PATCH v2] powerpc/mpc5xxx: Avoid dereferencing potentially freed memory
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Oct 15 17:36:17 AEDT 2015
On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 07:56 +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> Use 'of_property_read_u32()' instead of 'of_get_property()'+pointer
> dereference in order to avoid access to potentially freed memory.
>
> Use 'of_get_next_parent()' to simplify the while() loop and avoid the
> need of a temp variable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet at wanadoo.fr>
> ---
> v2: Use of_property_read_u32 instead of of_get_property+pointer dereference
> *** Untested ***
Thanks.
Can someone with an mpc5xxx test this?
cheers
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