[PATCH 09/16] of: overlay: validate overlay properties #address-cells and #size-cells

Frank Rowand frowand.list at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 04:53:44 AEST 2018


On 10/05/18 08:07, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 11:14 PM <frowand.list at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand at sony.com>
>>
>> If overlay properties #address-cells or #size-cells are already in
>> the live devicetree for any given node, then the values in the
>> overlay must match the values in the live tree.
>>
>> If the properties are already in the live tree then there is no
>> need to create a changeset entry to add them since they must
>> have the same value.  This reduces the memory used by the
>> changeset and eliminates a possible memory leak.  This is
>> verified by 12 fewer warnings during the devicetree unittest,
>> as the possible memory leak warnings about #address-cells and
> 
> and...?

#size-cells no longer occur.

(Thanks for catching that.)


>>
>> Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand at sony.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/of/overlay.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>>  1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/of/overlay.c b/drivers/of/overlay.c
>> index 29c33a5c533f..e6fb3ffe9d93 100644
>> --- a/drivers/of/overlay.c
>> +++ b/drivers/of/overlay.c
>> @@ -287,7 +287,12 @@ static struct property *dup_and_fixup_symbol_prop(
>>   * @target may be either in the live devicetree or in a new subtree that
>>   * is contained in the changeset.
>>   *
>> - * Some special properties are not updated (no error returned).
>> + * Some special properties are not added or updated (no error returned):
>> + * "name", "phandle", "linux,phandle".
>> + *
>> + * Properties "#address-cells" and "#size-cells" are not updated if they
>> + * are already in the live tree, but if present in the live tree, the values
>> + * in the overlay must match the values in the live tree.
> 
> Perhaps this should be generalized to apply to any property? We can't
> really deal with property values changing on the fly anyways.

That is a bigger discussion.  I'd prefer to not hold up this series for that
question to be resolved.  It will be easy enough to generalize in an add-on
patch later.


>>   *
>>   * Update of property in symbols node is not allowed.
>>   *
>> @@ -300,6 +305,7 @@ static int add_changeset_property(struct overlay_changeset *ovcs,
>>  {
>>         struct property *new_prop = NULL, *prop;
>>         int ret = 0;
>> +       bool check_for_non_overlay_node = false;
>>
>>         if (!of_prop_cmp(overlay_prop->name, "name") ||
>>             !of_prop_cmp(overlay_prop->name, "phandle") ||
>> @@ -322,13 +328,39 @@ static int add_changeset_property(struct overlay_changeset *ovcs,
>>         if (!new_prop)
>>                 return -ENOMEM;
>>
>> -       if (!prop)
>> +       if (!prop) {
>> +
> 
> Remove the extra blank lines.

Will do.

> 
>> +               check_for_non_overlay_node = true;
>>                 ret = of_changeset_add_property(&ovcs->cset, target->np,
>>                                                 new_prop);
>> -       else
>> +
>> +       } else if (!of_prop_cmp(prop->name, "#address-cells")) {
>> +
>> +               if (prop->length != 4 || new_prop->length != 4 ||
>> +                   *(u32 *)prop->value != *(u32 *)new_prop->value)
> 
> Technically these are __be32 types. This could use a helper (of_prop_val_eq).

These are in a unpacked form, so cpu byte order, not FDT byte order.

> 
> I'm not sure we really need to validate the length here as dtc does
> that (but yes, not everything is from dtc).

Since I'm accessing 4 bytes of the values, I need to be sure the lengths
are at least 4.  For #address-cells and #size-cells the property is
specified as four bytes, so I could simplify the code for the specific case.

If this gets extended to any arbitrary property then a new of_prop_val_eq()
would check that the lengths are equal and the values (of size length) are
also equal.


> 
>> +                       pr_err("ERROR: overlay and/or live tree #address-cells invalid in node %pOF\n",
>> +                              target->np);
>> +
>> +       } else if (!of_prop_cmp(prop->name, "#size-cells")) {
>> +
>> +               if (prop->length != 4 || new_prop->length != 4 ||
>> +                   *(u32 *)prop->value != *(u32 *)new_prop->value)
>> +                       pr_err("ERROR: overlay and/or live tree #size-cells invalid in node %pOF\n",
>> +                              target->np);
>> +
>> +       } else {
>> +
>> +               check_for_non_overlay_node = true;
>>                 ret = of_changeset_update_property(&ovcs->cset, target->np,
>>                                                    new_prop);
>>
>> +       }
>> +
>> +       if (check_for_non_overlay_node &&
>> +           !of_node_check_flag(target->np, OF_OVERLAY))
>> +               pr_err("WARNING: %s(), memory leak will occur if overlay removed.  Property: %pOF/%s\n",
>> +                      __func__, target->np, new_prop->name);
>> +
>>         if (ret) {
>>                 kfree(new_prop->name);
>>                 kfree(new_prop->value);
>> --
>> Frank Rowand <frank.rowand at sony.com>
>>
> 



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