Re: [PATCH] device-tree: Drop properties with "/" in their name

[Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>]

On Wed, 19 May 2010 at 22:32, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Some bogus firmwares include properties with "/" in their name. This
> causes problems when creating the /proc/device-tree file system,
> because the slash is taken to indicate a directory.
> 
> We don't care about those properties, and we don't want to encourage
> them, so just throw them away when creating /proc/device-tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
> ---
> 
> Hi Christian, if you could test this new patch that'd be great, thanks!

I've tested the patch, the Badness is gone and the system is stable as 
ever. Will this be pushed to 2.6.35?

Thanks,
Christian.

>  fs/proc/proc_devtree.c |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_devtree.c b/fs/proc/proc_devtree.c
> index ce94801..d9396a4 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/proc_devtree.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/proc_devtree.c
> @@ -209,6 +209,9 @@ void proc_device_tree_add_node(struct device_node *np,
>  	for (pp = np->properties; pp != NULL; pp = pp->next) {
>  		p = pp->name;
>  
> +		if (strchr(p, '/'))
> +			continue;
> +
>  		if (duplicate_name(de, p))
>  			p = fixup_name(np, de, p);
>  
> -- 
> 1.7.0.4
> 
> 
> 

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