[PATCH] of: fix incorrect return value of of_find_matching_node_and_match()

Rob Herring robherring2 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 20 16:50:50 EST 2013


On 01/19/2013 12:20 PM, Thomas Abraham wrote:
> The of_find_matching_node_and_match() function incorrectly sets the matched
> entry to 'matches' when the compatible value of a node matches one of the
> possible values. This results in incorrectly selecting the the first entry in
> the 'matches' list as the matched entry. Fix this by noting down the result of
> the call to of_match_node() and setting that as the matched entry.

Looks fine, but is this breaking something in 3.8 or can it wait for 3.9?

Rob

> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Abraham <thomas.abraham at linaro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/of/base.c |    6 ++++--
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/of/base.c b/drivers/of/base.c
> index 2390ddb..960ae5b 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/base.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/base.c
> @@ -612,6 +612,7 @@ struct device_node *of_find_matching_node_and_match(struct device_node *from,
>  					const struct of_device_id **match)
>  {
>  	struct device_node *np;
> +	const struct of_device_id *m;
>  
>  	if (match)
>  		*match = NULL;
> @@ -619,9 +620,10 @@ struct device_node *of_find_matching_node_and_match(struct device_node *from,
>  	read_lock(&devtree_lock);
>  	np = from ? from->allnext : of_allnodes;
>  	for (; np; np = np->allnext) {
> -		if (of_match_node(matches, np) && of_node_get(np)) {
> +		m = of_match_node(matches, np);
> +		if (m && of_node_get(np)) {
>  			if (match)
> -				*match = matches;
> +				*match = m;
>  			break;
>  		}
>  	}
> 



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