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Message-ID: <b6ee53f7e02cc3ea52713ae82402e97d7050cb3e.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sun, 14 Oct 2018 18:06:40 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     frowand.list@...il.com, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@...sulko.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Alan Tull <atull@...nel.org>, Moritz Fischer <mdf@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-fpga@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 13/18] of: overlay: check prevents multiple fragments
 touching same property

On Sun, 2018-10-14 at 17:24 -0700, frowand.list@...il.com wrote:
> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@...y.com>
> 
> Add test case of two fragments updating the same property.  After
> adding the test case, the system hangs at end of boot, after
> after slub stack dumps from kfree() in crypto modprobe code.
[]
> -static int check_changeset_dup_add_node(struct overlay_changeset *ovcs)
> +static int changeset_dup_entry_check(struct overlay_changeset *ovcs)
>  {
> -	struct of_changeset_entry *ce_1, *ce_2;
> -	char *fn_1, *fn_2;
> -	int name_match;
> +	struct of_changeset_entry *ce_1;
> +	int dup_entry = 0;
>  
>  	list_for_each_entry(ce_1, &ovcs->cset.entries, node) {
> -
> -		if (ce_1->action == OF_RECONFIG_ATTACH_NODE ||
> -		    ce_1->action == OF_RECONFIG_DETACH_NODE) {
> -
> -			ce_2 = ce_1;
> -			list_for_each_entry_continue(ce_2, &ovcs->cset.entries, node) {
> -				if (ce_2->action == OF_RECONFIG_ATTACH_NODE ||
> -				    ce_2->action == OF_RECONFIG_DETACH_NODE) {
> -					/* inexpensive name compare */
> -					if (!of_node_cmp(ce_1->np->full_name,
> -					    ce_2->np->full_name)) {
> -						/* expensive full path name compare */
> -						fn_1 = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%pOF", ce_1->np);
> -						fn_2 = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%pOF", ce_2->np);
> -						name_match = !strcmp(fn_1, fn_2);
> -						kfree(fn_1);
> -						kfree(fn_2);
> -						if (name_match) {
> -							pr_err("ERROR: multiple overlay fragments add and/or delete node %pOF\n",
> -							       ce_1->np);
> -							return -EINVAL;
> -						}
> -					}
> -				}
> -			}
> -		}
> +		dup_entry |= find_dup_cset_node_entry(ovcs, ce_1);
> +		dup_entry |= find_dup_cset_prop(ovcs, ce_1);

I think this is worse performance than before.

This now walks all entries when before it would
return -EINVAL directly when it found a match.


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