linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] of: Fix overflow bug in string property parsing functions

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Date:	Tue, 04 Nov 2014 01:43:24 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>
Cc:	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Darren Hart <darren.hart@...el.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: Fix overflow bug in string property parsing functions

On Monday, November 03, 2014 11:38:24 PM Grant Likely wrote:

[cut]

> diff --git a/include/linux/of.h b/include/linux/of.h
> index 6545e7aec7bb..3b3c6e849ae8 100644
> --- a/include/linux/of.h
> +++ b/include/linux/of.h
> @@ -267,14 +267,12 @@ extern int of_property_read_u64(const struct device_node *np,
>  extern int of_property_read_string(struct device_node *np,
>  				   const char *propname,
>  				   const char **out_string);
> -extern int of_property_read_string_index(struct device_node *np,
> -					 const char *propname,
> -					 int index, const char **output);
>  extern int of_property_match_string(struct device_node *np,
>  				    const char *propname,
>  				    const char *string);
> -extern int of_property_count_strings(struct device_node *np,
> -				     const char *propname);
> +extern int of_property_read_string_helper(struct device_node *np,
> +					      const char *propname,
> +					      const char **out_strs, size_t sz, int index);
>  extern int of_device_is_compatible(const struct device_node *device,
>  				   const char *);
>  extern int of_device_is_available(const struct device_node *device);
> @@ -486,15 +484,9 @@ static inline int of_property_read_string(struct device_node *np,
>  	return -ENOSYS;
>  }
>  
> -static inline int of_property_read_string_index(struct device_node *np,
> -						const char *propname, int index,
> -						const char **out_string)
> -{
> -	return -ENOSYS;
> -}
> -
> -static inline int of_property_count_strings(struct device_node *np,
> -					    const char *propname)
> +static inline int of_property_read_string_helper(struct device_node *np,
> +						 const char *propname,
> +						 char **out_strs, size_t sz, int index)

	const char **out_strs, size_t sz, int index)

>  {
>  	return -ENOSYS;
>  }

Other than that, looks good to me.

Rafael

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