Re: [PATCH v2] of: Fix of platform build on powerpc due to bad of disaply code

From: Michal Suchánek
Date: Thu Jan 19 2023 - 08:23:38 EST


On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 02:11:13PM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi
>
> Am 19.01.23 um 11:24 schrieb Christophe Leroy:
> >
> >
> > Le 19/01/2023 à 10:53, Michal Suchanek a écrit :
> > > The commit 2d681d6a23a1 ("of: Make of framebuffer devices unique")
> > > breaks build because of wrong argument to snprintf. That certainly
> > > avoids the runtime error but is not the intended outcome.
> > >
> > > Also use standard device name format of-display.N for all created
> > > devices.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 2d681d6a23a1 ("of: Make of framebuffer devices unique")
> > > Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@xxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > v2: Update the device name format
> > > ---
> > > drivers/of/platform.c | 12 ++++++++----
> > > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/of/platform.c b/drivers/of/platform.c
> > > index f2a5d679a324..8c1b1de22036 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/of/platform.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/of/platform.c
> > > @@ -525,7 +525,9 @@ static int __init of_platform_default_populate_init(void)
> > > if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC)) {
> > > struct device_node *boot_display = NULL;
> > > struct platform_device *dev;
> > > - int display_number = 1;
> > > + int display_number = 0;
> > > + char buf[14];
> >
> > Can you declare that in the for block where it is used instead ?
> >
> > > + char *of_display_format = "of-display.%d";
> >
> > Should be const ?
>
> That should be static const of_display_format[] = then

Why? It sounds completely fine to have a const pointer to a string
constatnt.

Thanks

Michal

>
> >
> > > int ret;
> > > /* Check if we have a MacOS display without a node spec */
> > > @@ -556,7 +558,10 @@ static int __init of_platform_default_populate_init(void)
> > > if (!of_get_property(node, "linux,opened", NULL) ||
> > > !of_get_property(node, "linux,boot-display", NULL))
> > > continue;
> > > - dev = of_platform_device_create(node, "of-display", NULL);
> > > + ret = snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), of_display_format, display_number++);
> > > + if (ret >= sizeof(buf))
> > > + continue;
> >
> >
> > Can you make buf big enough to avoid that ?
> >
> > And by the way could it be called something else than 'buf' ?
> >
> > See exemple here :
> > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.1/source/drivers/fsi/fsi-occ.c#L690
> >
> >
> > > + dev = of_platform_device_create(node, buf, NULL);
> > > if (WARN_ON(!dev))
> > > return -ENOMEM;
> > > boot_display = node;
> > > @@ -564,10 +569,9 @@ static int __init of_platform_default_populate_init(void)
> > > }
> > > for_each_node_by_type(node, "display") {
> > > - char *buf[14];
> > > if (!of_get_property(node, "linux,opened", NULL) || node == boot_display)
> > > continue;
> > > - ret = snprintf(buf, "of-display-%d", display_number++);
> > > + ret = snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), of_display_format, display_number++);
> > > if (ret >= sizeof(buf))
> > > continue;
> > > of_platform_device_create(node, buf, NULL);
>
> --
> Thomas Zimmermann
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