Re: [PATCH v4 00/18] of: overlay: validation checks, subsequent fixes

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Tue Oct 16 2018 - 05:47:33 EST


frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx writes:

> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Add checks to (1) overlay apply process and (2) memory freeing
> triggered by overlay release. The checks are intended to detect
> possible memory leaks and invalid overlays.
>
> The checks revealed bugs in existing code. Fixed the bugs.
>
> While fixing bugs, noted other issues, which are fixed in
> separate patches.
>
> ***** Powerpc folks: I was not able to test the patches that
> ***** directly impact Powerpc systems that use dynamic
> ***** devicetree. Please review that code carefully and
> ***** test. The specific patches are: 03/16, 04/16, 07/16

Hi Frank,

Do you have this series in a git tree somewhere?

I tried applying it on top of linux-next but hit some conflicts which I
couldn't easily resolve.

cheers