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Date:   Tue, 6 Apr 2021 14:21:00 -0500
From:   Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] of: properly check for error returned by
 fdt_get_name()
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On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 10:28:45PM -0500, frowand.list@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sony.com>
> 
> fdt_get_name() returns error values via a parameter pointer
> instead of in function return.  Fix check for this error value
> in populate_node() and callers of populate_node().
> 
> Chasing up the caller tree showed callers of various functions
> failing to initialize the value of pointer parameters that
> can return error values.  Initialize those values to NULL.
> 
> The bug was introduced by
> commit e6a6928c3ea1 ("of/fdt: Convert FDT functions to use libfdt")
> but this patch can not be backported directly to that commit
> because the relevant code has further been restructured by
> commit dfbd4c6eff35 ("drivers/of: Split unflatten_dt_node()")
> 
> The bug became visible by triggering a crash on openrisc with:
> commit 79edff12060f ("scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.6.0-51-g183df9e9c2b9")
> as reported in:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210327224116.69309-1-linux@roeck-us.net/
> 
> Fixes: commit 79edff12060f ("scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.6.0-51-g183df9e9c2b9")
> Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sony.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> This patch papers over the unaligned pointer passed to
> of_fdt_unflatten_tree() bug that Guenter reported in
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210327224116.69309-1-linux@roeck-us.net/
> 
> I will create a separate patch to fix that problem.

Got an ETA for that?

Rob