arm psci_probe() bug
Sascha Hauer
s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Thu Aug 3 01:54:33 PDT 2023
On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 10:30:16AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
>
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 11:04:36AM +0300, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I found a bug in psci processing.
> > Currently the kernel writes the following on boot:
> > psci: probing for conduit method from DT.
> > psci: invalid "method" property:
> > ...
> >
> > In the psci_probe() function we do the following:
> > ret = of_property_read_string(dev->of_node, "method", &method);
> > and use this (method) variable as an argument for of_psci_fixup().
> > I suspect we are free this variable at of_property_write_string ->
> > of_set_property > of_delete_property.
> >
> > Can you confirm my thought and correct it in the right direction?
>
> Are you using the internal device tree for booting? If yes, then I think
> this can happen. As I just saw when booting with the internal device
> tree then of_get_fixed_tree() is called with the barebox live tree as
> argument. We shouldn't do this and use a copy instead.
Whether or not this is your actual problem I just sent a patch
addressing this.
Sascha
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