linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/20] of/fdt: create common debugfs

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Date:	Sun, 6 Apr 2014 19:42:43 -0500
From:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>
To:	Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/20] of/fdt: create common debugfs

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu> wrote:
> On 04/04/2014 03:32 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu> wrote:
>>> On 04/04/2014 03:00 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu> wrote:
>>>>> On 04/04/2014 12:16 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
>>>>>> From: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Both powerpc and microblaze have the same FDT blob in debugfs feature.
>>>>>> Move this to common location and remove the powerpc and microblaze
>>>>>> implementations. This feature could become more useful when FDT
>>>>>> overlay support is added.
>>>>
>>>> [snip]
>>
>>> Anyway I am testing it for microblaze and getting problem
>>> caused by this patch:
>>> commit 3d2ee8571ac0580d49c3f41fa28336289934900a
>>> Author: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
>>> Date:   Wed Apr 2 15:10:14 2014 -0500
>>>
>>>     of/fdt: Convert FDT functions to use libfdt
>>>
>>> And reason is that in unflatten_dt_node()
>>>
>>> pathp = fdt_get_name(blob, *poffset, &l);
>>>
>>> is returning NULL
>>> and here
>>>         /* version 0x10 has a more compact unit name here instead of the full
>>>          * path. we accumulate the full path size using "fpsize", we'll rebuild
>>>          * it later. We detect this because the first character of the name is
>>>          * not '/'.
>>>          */
>>>         if ((*pathp) != '/') {
>>>
>>> code is trying to read it which is causing this kernel bug:
>>> Oops: kernel access of bad area, sig: 11
>>>
>>> It means fdt_next_node(is doing something wrong)
>>>
>>> Any easy way how to debug it?
>>
>> I didn't think fdt_get_path should fail. Can you add a print of
>> *poffset and pathp values.

I think I've fixed this now and updated the branch. Please test again
when you have a chance.

Thanks,
Rob
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