Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Herring <> | Date | Mon, 21 Aug 2023 09:23:10 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] of: dynamic: Move dead property list check into property add/update functions |
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On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 8:05 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote: > > Hi Rob, > > Thanks for your patch! > > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 10:41 PM Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote: > > The changeset code checks for a property in the deadprops list when > > adding/updating a property, but of_add_property() and > > of_update_property() do not. As the users of these functions are pretty > > simple, they have not hit this scenario or else the property lists > > would get corrupted. > > > > With this there are 3 cases of removing a property from either deadprops > > or properties lists, so add a helper to find and remove a matching > > property. > > > > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> > > Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Thanks!
> > Perhaps this needs a Fixes tag?
I didn't simply because in the decades that these functions existed, no one cared. It would require a specific sequence of calls which we could pretty much determine doesn't happen just looking at the callers in the kernel.
Rob
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