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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] powerpc: detect the secure boot mode of the system
To:     Nayna Jain <nayna@linux.ibm.com>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
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From:   Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas@linux.microsoft.com>
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Date:   Thu, 24 Oct 2019 10:26:47 -0700
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On 10/23/2019 8:47 PM, Nayna Jain wrote:
> This patch defines a function to detect the secure boot state of a
> PowerNV system.

> +bool is_ppc_secureboot_enabled(void)
> +{
> +	struct device_node *node;
> +	bool enabled = false;
> +
> +	node = of_find_compatible_node(NULL, NULL, "ibm,secvar-v1");
> +	if (!of_device_is_available(node)) {
> +		pr_err("Cannot find secure variable node in device tree; failing to secure state\n");
> +		goto out;

Related to "goto out;" above:

Would of_find_compatible_node return NULL if the given node is not found?

If of_device_is_available returns false (say, because node is NULL or it 
does not find the specified node) would it be correct to call of_node_put?

> +
> +out:
> +	of_node_put(node);

  -lakshmi