[PATCH v2 1/9] powerpc/pseries: Fix bad drc_index_start value parsing of drc-info entry

Tyrel Datwyler tyreld at linux.ibm.com
Mon Nov 11 16:21:28 AEDT 2019


The ibm,drc-info property is an array property that contains drc-info
entries such that each entry is made up of 2 string encoded elements
followed by 5 int encoded elements. The of_read_drc_info_cell()
helper contains comments that correctly name the expected elements
and their encoding. However, the usage of of_prop_next_string() and
of_prop_next_u32() introduced a subtle skippage of the first u32.
This is a result of of_prop_next_string() returning a pointer to the
next property value which is not a string, but actually a (__be32 *).
As, a result the following call to of_prop_next_u32() passes over the
current int encoded value and actually stores the next one wrongly.

Simply endian swap the current value in place after reading the first
two string values. The remaining int encoded values can then be read
correctly using of_prop_next_u32().

Signed-off-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld at linux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/of_helpers.c | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/of_helpers.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/of_helpers.c
index 6df192f..66dfd82 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/of_helpers.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/of_helpers.c
@@ -45,14 +45,14 @@ struct device_node *pseries_of_derive_parent(const char *path)
 int of_read_drc_info_cell(struct property **prop, const __be32 **curval,
 			struct of_drc_info *data)
 {
-	const char *p;
+	const char *p = (char *)(*curval);
 	const __be32 *p2;
 
 	if (!data)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	/* Get drc-type:encode-string */
-	p = data->drc_type = (char*) (*curval);
+	data->drc_type = (char *)p;
 	p = of_prop_next_string(*prop, p);
 	if (!p)
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -65,9 +65,7 @@ int of_read_drc_info_cell(struct property **prop, const __be32 **curval,
 
 	/* Get drc-index-start:encode-int */
 	p2 = (const __be32 *)p;
-	p2 = of_prop_next_u32(*prop, p2, &data->drc_index_start);
-	if (!p2)
-		return -EINVAL;
+	data->drc_index_start = be32_to_cpu(*p2);
 
 	/* Get drc-name-suffix-start:encode-int */
 	p2 = of_prop_next_u32(*prop, p2, &data->drc_name_suffix_start);
-- 
2.7.4



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