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of: add helper to lookup compatible child node
authorJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Mon, 27 Aug 2018 08:21:45 +0000 (10:21 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 06:39:34 +0000 (08:39 +0200)
commit0c6e2a79715a607067fc6b0d5407f88b8d9453eb
tree1a0be1771fd497362d48e67ae052d1cb94d32331
parent8bfbd71c11462058c1203a289e7be568273bc8af
of: add helper to lookup compatible child node

commit 36156f9241cb0f9e37d998052873ca7501ad4b36 upstream.

Add of_get_compatible_child() helper that can be used to lookup
compatible child nodes.

Several drivers currently use of_find_compatible_node() to lookup child
nodes while failing to notice that the of_find_ functions search the
entire tree depth-first (from a given start node) and therefore can
match unrelated nodes. The fact that these functions also drop a
reference to the node they start searching from (e.g. the parent node)
is typically also overlooked, something which can lead to use-after-free
bugs.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/of/base.c
include/linux/of.h