Re: [PATCH v6 00/18] of: overlay: validation checks, subsequent fixes

From: Frank Rowand
Date: Mon Nov 05 2018 - 16:55:15 EST


Hi Michael, Ben, Paul,

Do you know if anyone has tried this series on PowerPC?

Thanks,

-Frank


On 11/5/18 11:24 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 9:26 AM <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Add checks to (1) overlay apply process and (2) memory freeing
>> triggered by overlay release. The checks are intended to detect
>> possible memory leaks and invalid overlays.
>>
>> The checks revealed bugs in existing code. Fixed the bugs.
>>
>> While fixing bugs, noted other issues, which are fixed in
>> separate patches.
>>
>> ***** Powerpc folks: I was not able to test the patches that
>> ***** directly impact Powerpc systems that use dynamic
>> ***** devicetree. Please review that code carefully and
>> ***** test. The specific patches are: 03/16, 04/16, 07/16
>
> I'm waiting for this to happen. Send me a pull req when it does or
> when you give up waiting for a response.
>
> Rob
>