[PATCH v2025.09.y 56/58] of: fdt: refuse / in property and node names
Ahmad Fatoum
a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Fri Mar 13 06:25:40 PDT 2026
/ is used as delimiter between nodes, so seeing it in a device node name
hints at something fishy going on, so refuse that outright.
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.barebox.org/barebox/177340042002.206359.73330334326620046.b4-ty@pengutronix.de
---
drivers/of/fdt.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c
index 2ef7658bc4ab..8418549a4005 100644
--- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
+++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
@@ -67,6 +67,14 @@ static inline bool is_reserved_name(const char *name)
return *name == '$';
}
+static inline bool is_allowed_input_name(const char *name)
+{
+ /* We are stricter on input than on output, because we assume barebox
+ * code won't attempt naming nodes bogously.
+ */
+ return !is_reserved_name(name) && !strchr(name, '/');
+}
+
static int of_reservemap_num_entries(const struct fdt_header *fdt)
{
/*
@@ -248,7 +256,7 @@ static struct device_node *__of_unflatten_dtb(const void *infdt, int size,
node = root;
} else {
/* Only the root node may have an empty name */
- if (!*pathp || is_reserved_name(pathp)) {
+ if (!*pathp || !is_allowed_input_name(pathp)) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto err;
}
@@ -285,7 +293,7 @@ static struct device_node *__of_unflatten_dtb(const void *infdt, int size,
nodep = fdt_prop->data;
name = dt_string(&f, dt_strings, fdt32_to_cpu(fdt_prop->nameoff));
- if (!name || !node || is_reserved_name(name)) {
+ if (!name || !node || !is_allowed_input_name(name)) {
ret = -ESPIPE;
goto err;
}
--
2.47.3
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