Re: [PATCH] LoongArch: Avoid in-place string operation on FDT content

[Jiaxun Yang]

在2025年7月5日周六 下午1:57，Yao Zi写道：
> In init_cpu_fullname, a constant pointer to model property is retrieved.
> It's later modified by the strsep function, which is illegal and
> corrupts kernel's FDT copy. This is shown by dmesg,
>
> 	OF: fdt: not creating '/sys/firmware/fdt': CRC check failed
>
> Create a mutable copy of the model property and do in-place operations
> on it instead. loongson_sysconf.cpuname lives across the kernel
> lifetime, thus manually releasing isn't necessary.
>
> Also move of_node_put() for the root node after the usage of its
> property, since of_node_put() decreases the reference counter thus usage
> after the call is unsafe.
>
> Fixes: 44a01f1f726a ("LoongArch: Parsing CPU-related information from DTS")

Reviewed-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Yao Zi <ziyao@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/loongarch/kernel/env.c | 11 +++++++----
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/loongarch/kernel/env.c b/arch/loongarch/kernel/env.c
> index 27144de5c5fe..fba141472ab9 100644
> --- a/arch/loongarch/kernel/env.c
> +++ b/arch/loongarch/kernel/env.c
> @@ -40,15 +40,18 @@ void __init init_environ(void)
>  static int __init init_cpu_fullname(void)
>  {
>  	struct device_node *root;
> +	const char *model;
>  	int cpu, ret;
> -	char *model;
> +	char *tmp;
> 
>  	/* Parsing cpuname from DTS model property */
>  	root = of_find_node_by_path("/");
> -	ret = of_property_read_string(root, "model", (const char **)&model);
> +	ret = of_property_read_string(root, "model", &model);
> +	if (ret == 0) {
> +		tmp = kstrdup(model, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		loongson_sysconf.cpuname = strsep(&tmp, " ");
> +	}
>  	of_node_put(root);
> -	if (ret == 0)
> -		loongson_sysconf.cpuname = strsep(&model, " ");
> 
>  	if (loongson_sysconf.cpuname && !strncmp(loongson_sysconf.cpuname, 
> "Loongson", 8)) {
>  		for (cpu = 0; cpu < NR_CPUS; cpu++)
> -- 
> 2.49.0

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- Jiaxun