Re: [Bug #15589] 2.6.34-rc1: Badness at fs/proc/generic.c:316

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Tue Apr 20 2010 - 08:18:27 EST


On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 23:45 -0700, Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 at 05:19, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15589
> > Subject : 2.6.34-rc1: Badness at fs/proc/generic.c:316
> > Submitter : Christian Kujau <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date : 2010-03-13 23:53 (38 days old)
> > Message-ID : <alpine.DEB.2.01.1003131544340.5493@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126852442903680&w=2
>
> Yes, unless something in this area has changed from -rc4 to -rc5, this is
> still printed during boot:
>
>
> device-tree: Duplicate name in /cpus/PowerPC,G4@0, renamed to "l2-cache#1"
> name 'pulses/rev'
> ------------[ cut here ]------------

Don't cut here, sigh.

> Badness at fs/proc/generic.c:317

Try this 100% unbuilt, 100% untested patch.

cheers


diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_devtree.c b/fs/proc/proc_devtree.c
index f8650dc..9502b48 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_devtree.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_devtree.c
@@ -175,6 +175,24 @@ retry:
return fixed_name;
}

+static const char *unslash_name(const char *name)
+{
+ char *p, *fixed_name;
+
+ fixed_name = kstrdup(name);
+ if (!fixed_name) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "device-tree: Out of memory trying to unslash "
+ "name \"%s\"\n", name);
+ return name;
+ }
+
+ p = fixed_name;
+ while ((p = strstr(p, "/")))
+ *p++ = '_';
+
+ return fixed_name;
+}
+
/*
* Process a node, adding entries for its children and its properties.
*/
@@ -211,6 +229,9 @@ void proc_device_tree_add_node(struct device_node *np,
if (duplicate_name(de, p))
p = fixup_name(np, de, p);

+ if (strstr(p, "/"))
+ p = unslash_name(p);
+
ent = __proc_device_tree_add_prop(de, pp, p);
if (ent == NULL)
break;


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