linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] of: overlay: rework overlay apply and remove kfree()s

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Message-ID: <a2679425-3486-2823-01f7-6b208d296564@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 10 Apr 2022 23:10:48 -0500
From:   Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>
To:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, pantelis.antoniou@...sulko.com,
        Slawomir Stepien <slawomir.stepien@...ia.com>
Cc:     devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Slawomir Stepien <sst@...zta.fm>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Alan Tull <atull@...nel.org>,
        Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] of: overlay: rework overlay apply and remove
 kfree()s

adding cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>

On 4/10/22 16:08, frowand.list@...il.com wrote:
> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@...y.com>
> 
> Fix various kfree() issues related to of_overlay_apply().
> 
> The fixes revealed inconsist variable names for the same variable
> across functions, resulting in difficulty understanding the code
> that was being modified.  Doing both variable renaming and the
> fixes results in a hard to review patch, so split into two patches.
> 
> The first patch in the series contains only variable renaming.
> The second patch contains the kfree() related fixes.
> 
> Frank Rowand (2):
>   of: overlay: rename variables to be consistent
>   of: overlay: rework overlay apply and remove kfree()s
> 
>  Documentation/devicetree/overlay-notes.rst |  23 ++-
>  drivers/of/overlay.c                       | 175 +++++++++++----------
>  2 files changed, 115 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)
>