[PATCH] gpiolib: fix: do not access oftree on non-OFDEVICE boards

Alexander Kurz akurz at blala.de
Tue Jul 4 13:17:39 PDT 2017


Hi Lucas,

On Mon, 3 Jul 2017, Lucas Stach wrote:

> Am Sonntag, den 02.07.2017, 22:24 +0200 schrieb Alexander Kurz:
> > Non-OFDEVICE boards may have OFTREE=y set, e.g. by BOOTM_OFTREE.
> > Attempts to browse the oftree will crash barebox on those boards.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Kurz <akurz at blala.de>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 5 ++++-
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> > index a3e17ad..a1ff965 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> > @@ -416,7 +416,10 @@ int gpiochip_add(struct gpio_chip *chip)
> >  	for (i = chip->base; i < chip->base + chip->ngpio; i++)
> >  		gpio_desc[i].chip = chip;
> >  
> > -	return of_gpiochip_scan_hogs(chip);
> > +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OFDEVICE))
> > +		return of_gpiochip_scan_hogs(chip);
> > +	else
> > +		return 0;
> 
> This may also crash in mixed oftree/board file based systems (however
> unlikely that is). I think an early return from of_gpiochip_scan_hogs ()
> if chip->dev->device_node is NULL would be more robust.
IS_ENABLED(...) is evaluated at compile time.
Checking CONFIG_OFDEVICE even before calling the OF-function gives the 
compiler the chance to omit the integration of the unneeded function.
A quick test on with kindle3_defconfig resulted in half a kilobyte
image size difference.

Sure, a further check on the device node presence might be usefull, e.g.
git grep 'IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OFDEVICE)' drivers/
but I have not reviewed the code in this direction.
At least, the code does not crash due to this reason.

Regards, Alexander


> Regards,
> Lucas
> 



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