Re: [PATCH 0/2] of: unittest: re-implement overlay tracking

From: Frank Rowand
Date: Fri Dec 31 2021 - 22:49:10 EST


Hi Erhard,

Can you please check whether this patch series fixes the shift-out-of-bounds
problem you reported?

-Frank


On 12/31/21 9:33 PM, frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Some overlays are tracked when they are applied. The tracked overlays
> are later removed after the overlay tests are completed. The old
> implementation makes assumptions about the expected values for
> overlay changeset id created by the overlay apply which result
> in fragile code. The new code removes the assumptions.
>
> A symptom that exposes a problem with the tracking code is a
> warning "UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in drivers/of/unittest.c:1933:36",
> Kernel Version: 5.15-rc7, PPC-64, Talos II. This results from variable
> "id" value of -1 in the final line of of_unittest_untrack_overlay().
>
> The first patch in the series cleans up the inconsistent use of overlay
> changeset id and the obsolete overlay id. The id is a core concept in
> the overlay tracking that is re-implemented in the second patch in
> the series.
>
> Frank Rowand (2):
> of: unittest: change references to obsolete overlay id
> of: unittest: re-implement overlay tracking
>
> drivers/of/unittest.c | 154 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
> 1 file changed, 71 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)
>