[PATCH] drivers/of: fdt: validate stdout-path properties before parsing them

From: Pengpeng Hou

Date: Fri Apr 03 2026 - 00:08:28 EST


early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout() fetches stdout-path and
linux,stdout-path directly from the flat DT and immediately passes the
result to strchrnul(). Flat DT properties are raw firmware-supplied
byte sequences, and this path does not prove that either property is
NUL-terminated within its declared bounds.

Use fdt_stringlist_get() so malformed unterminated stdout-path
properties are rejected before the local parser walks them as C
strings.

Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/of/fdt.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c
index 331646d667b9..3dcd20c2fa73 100644
--- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
+++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
@@ -954,9 +954,9 @@ int __init early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout(void)
if (offset < 0)
return -ENOENT;

- p = fdt_getprop(fdt, offset, "stdout-path", &l);
+ p = fdt_stringlist_get(fdt, offset, "stdout-path", 0, &l);
if (!p)
- p = fdt_getprop(fdt, offset, "linux,stdout-path", &l);
+ p = fdt_stringlist_get(fdt, offset, "linux,stdout-path", 0, &l);
if (!p || !l)
return -ENOENT;

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