Re: [PATCH v2 09/12] of: overlay: avoid race condition between applying multiple overlays

[Frank Rowand]

On 10/16/17 18:17, frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> The process of applying an overlay consists of:
>   - unflatten an overlay FDT (flattened device tree) into an
>     EDT (expanded device tree)
>   - fixup the phandle values in the overlay EDT to fit in a
>     range above the phandle values in the live device tree
>   - create the overlay changeset to reflect the contents of
>     the overlay EDT
>   - apply the overlay changeset, to modify the live device tree,
>     potentially changing the maximum phandle value in the live
>     device tree
> 
> There is currently no protection against two overlay applies
> concurrently determining what range of phandle values are in use
> in the live device tree, and subsequently changing that range.
> Add a mutex to prevent multiple overlay applies from occurring
> simultaneously.
> 
> Move of_resolve_phandles() into of_overlay_apply() so that it does not
> have to be duplicated by each caller of of_overlay_apply().
> 
> The test in of_resolve_phandles() that the overlay tree is detached is
> temporarily disabled so that old style overlay unittests do not fail.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxx>
> ---

Brown paper bag time.

Changes from version 1:

squash "[PATCH] of: overlay: move resolve phandles into of_overlay_apply()"
into "[PATCH 09/12] of: overlay: avoid race condition between applying multiple overlays"


>  drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc/tilcdc_slave_compat.c |  6 ------
>  drivers/of/of_private.h                      | 12 +++++++++++
>  drivers/of/overlay.c                         | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/of/resolver.c                        |  7 ++++++
>  drivers/of/unittest.c                        | 22 +++++++++++++------
>  include/linux/of.h                           |  3 ---
>  6 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 

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