linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mfd: twl6040: fix child-node lookup

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Mon, 13 Nov 2017 09:12:56 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@...com>,
        Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mfd: twl6040: fix child-node lookup

On Sat, 11 Nov 2017, Johan Hovold wrote:

> Fix child-node lookup during probe, which ended up searching the whole
> device tree depth-first starting at the parent rather than just matching
> on its children.
> 
> To make things worse, the parent node was prematurely freed, while the
> child node was leaked.
> 
> Note that the CONFIG_OF compile guard can be removed as
> of_get_child_by_name() provides a !CONFIG_OF implementation which always
> fails.
> 
> Fixes: 37e13cecaa14 ("mfd: Add support for Device Tree to twl6040")
> Fixes: ca2cad6ae38e ("mfd: Fix twl6040 build failure")
> Cc: stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>     # 3.5
> Cc: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@...com>
> Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mfd/twl6040.c | 12 ++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

For my own reference:
  Acked-for-MFD-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>

I'll pick these up later in the cycle.

-- 
Lee Jones
Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead
Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs
Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog