[Pdbg] [PATCH v2 02/16] libpdbg: fix a bug in get_class_target_addr

Alistair Popple alistair at popple.id.au
Wed Nov 7 16:39:29 AEDT 2018


The root device tree node does not have a class. Therefore this assert
was not useful as the strcmp() may cause a segfault comparing the root
node class.

Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <alistair at popple.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Amitay Isaacs <amitay at ozlabs.org>
---
 libpdbg/target.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libpdbg/target.c b/libpdbg/target.c
index 317a6c6..975ecec 100644
--- a/libpdbg/target.c
+++ b/libpdbg/target.c
@@ -24,10 +24,9 @@ static struct pdbg_target *get_class_target_addr(struct pdbg_target *target, con
 		*addr += dt_get_address(target, 0, NULL);
 		target = target->parent;
 
-		/* The should always be a parent. If there isn't it
-		 * means we traversed up the whole device tree and
-		 * didn't find a parent matching the given class. */
-		assert(target);
+		/* The root node doesn't have an address space so it's
+		 * an error in the device tree if we hit this. */
+		assert(target != dt_root);
 	}
 
 	return target;
-- 
2.11.0



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