[PATCH v4 00/18] of: overlay: validation checks, subsequent fixes

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Oct 16 20:47:27 AEDT 2018


frowand.list at gmail.com writes:

> 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

Hi Frank,

Do you have this series in a git tree somewhere?

I tried applying it on top of linux-next but hit some conflicts which I
couldn't easily resolve.

cheers


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