Re: [PATCH] of: Fix __of_device_is_available check

From: Grant Likely
Date: Thu Jan 16 2014 - 12:30:38 EST


On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 11:07:28 +0800, Xiubo Li <Li.Xiubo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From IEEE 1275, there defined a standard 'status' property indicating the
> operational status of one device. The 'status' property has four possible
> values: 'okay/ok', 'disabled', 'fail' and 'fail-xxx'.
>
> If it is absent, that means the status of the device is unknown or okay.
>
> The __of_device_is_available checks the state of the 'status' property of
> a device. If the property is absent or set to 'okay/ok', it returns 1.
> Otherwise it returns 0.
>
> While in __of_device_is_available:
> > status = of_get_property(device, "status", &statlen);
> > if (status == NULL)
> > return 1;
> The status value returned from 'of_get_property()' will be NULL in two cases:
> Firstly: the 'device' value (device node) is NULL.
> Secondly: the 'status' property is actaully not exist.
>
> If the device node is NULL, the __of_device_is_available will return true,
> that will mean the absent state of the 'status' property.
>
> So this add the device node check before checking the 'status' property's
> state, and if the device node is not exist, 0 will be returned.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <Li.Xiubo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks

g.

> ---
> drivers/of/base.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/of/base.c b/drivers/of/base.c
> index f807d0e..ba195fb 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/base.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/base.c
> @@ -415,6 +415,9 @@ static int __of_device_is_available(const struct device_node *device)
> const char *status;
> int statlen;
>
> + if (!device)
> + return 0;
> +
> status = __of_get_property(device, "status", &statlen);
> if (status == NULL)
> return 1;
> --
> 1.8.4
>
>

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