[PATCH v6 00/18] of: overlay: validation checks, subsequent fixes

Frank Rowand frowand.list at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 08:55:10 AEDT 2018


Hi Michael, Ben, Paul,

Do you know if anyone has tried this series on PowerPC?

Thanks,

-Frank


On 11/5/18 11:24 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 9:26 AM <frowand.list at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand at sony.com>
>>
>> Add checks to (1) overlay apply process and (2) memory freeing
>> triggered by overlay release.  The checks are intended to detect
>> possible memory leaks and invalid overlays.
>>
>> The checks revealed bugs in existing code.  Fixed the bugs.
>>
>> While fixing bugs, noted other issues, which are fixed in
>> separate patches.
>>
>> *****  Powerpc folks: I was not able to test the patches that
>> *****  directly impact Powerpc systems that use dynamic
>> *****  devicetree.  Please review that code carefully and
>> *****  test.  The specific patches are: 03/16, 04/16, 07/16
> 
> I'm waiting for this to happen. Send me a pull req when it does or
> when you give up waiting for a response.
> 
> Rob
> 



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