[PATCH] restart: fix restart handler by name selection

Marco Felsch m.felsch at pengutronix.de
Thu Jul 2 06:51:58 PDT 2026


On 26-07-02, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> 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?

Because it's not required for them to have a device associated, e.g.
each restart_handler_register_fn() user doesn't have a device set.

Regards,
  Marco

> 
> 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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