[PATCH] restart: fix restart handler by name selection

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Thu Jul 2 06:40:31 PDT 2026


Hello,

On 6/22/26 7:21 PM, Marco Felsch wrote:
> Commit d20a9a455d8d ("restart: allow selecting restart handler by device
> name") introduce a bug, while adding the support to select a restart
> handler by device name.
> 
> The list_for_each_entry() loop should sort out all restart handler which
> don't match the user requested restart handler. Instead all restart
> handlers which don't have a device associated are honored as well
> because the if condition is always 0 in this case.
> 
> Split the if to fix this and add a helper variable to make the code more
> readable.
> 
> Fixes: d20a9a455d8d ("restart: allow selecting restart handler by device name")
> Signed-off-by: Marco Felsch <m.felsch at pengutronix.de>

Why do we have restart handlers without a device name?

Cheers,
Ahmad

> ---
>  common/restart.c | 9 +++++++--
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/common/restart.c b/common/restart.c
> index 391d7bd3773c..85519912170d 100644
> --- a/common/restart.c
> +++ b/common/restart.c
> @@ -117,8 +117,13 @@ struct restart_handler *restart_handler_get_by_name(const char *name, int flags)
>  
>  	list_for_each_entry(tmp, &restart_handler_list, list) {
>  		if (name) {
> -			if ((tmp->name && strcmp(name, tmp->name)) &&
> -			    (tmp->dev && strcmp(name, dev_name(tmp->dev))))
> +			bool found = false;
> +
> +			if (tmp->name && !strcmp(name, tmp->name))
> +				found = true;
> +			if (tmp->dev && !strcmp(name, dev_name(tmp->dev)))
> +				found = true;
> +			if (!found)
>  				continue;
>  		}
>  

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