[PATCH] kexec/fs2dt: Fix sorting of device tree

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Wed Nov 12 17:00:29 PST 2014


On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:34:18AM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> Commit b02d735bf252 ('ppc64 kdump device_tree sort') added code to
> sort device tree properties, but it had a few issues.
> 
> A compare routine needs to return -1 and 1. The special case for
> sorting properties with unit addresses only returned 1 and ignored
> the opposite case, which screwed up the sorting.
> 
> We were missing a few more things:
> 
> - Need to check both basenames are the same length
> - Need to check both basenames match
> 
> I noticed this when looking at the NUMA topology after a kexec, and
> it had shifted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>

Thanks Anton, applied.

> ---
>  kexec/fs2dt.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kexec/fs2dt.c b/kexec/fs2dt.c
> index 1e5f074..304f6cb 100644
> --- a/kexec/fs2dt.c
> +++ b/kexec/fs2dt.c
> @@ -479,6 +479,8 @@ static int comparefunc(const struct dirent **dentry1,
>  {
>  	char *str1 = (*(struct dirent **)dentry1)->d_name;
>  	char *str2 = (*(struct dirent **)dentry2)->d_name;
> +	char *sep1 = strchr(str1, '@');
> +	char *sep2 = strchr(str2, '@');
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * strcmp scans from left to right and fails to idetify for some
> @@ -486,9 +488,20 @@ static int comparefunc(const struct dirent **dentry1,
>  	 * Therefore, we get the wrong sorted order like memory at 10000000 and
>  	 * memory at f000000.
>  	 */
> -	if (strchr(str1, '@') && strchr(str2, '@') &&
> -		(strlen(str1) > strlen(str2)))
> -		return 1;
> +	if (sep1 && sep2) {
> +		int baselen1 = sep1 - str1;
> +		int baselen2 = sep2 - str2;
> +		int len1 = strlen(str1);
> +		int len2 = strlen(str2);
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * Check the base name matches, and the properties are
> +		 * different lengths.
> +		 */
> +		if ((baselen1 == baselen2) && (len1 != len2) &&
> +		    !strncmp(str1, str2, baselen2))
> +			return (len1 > len2) - (len1 < len2);
> +	}
>  
>  	return strcmp(str1, str2);
>  }
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
> 
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