Re: [PATCH] pmdomain: core: Fix error checking in genpd_dev_pm_attach_by_id()

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On Thu, 8 May 2025 at 12:34, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 12:14:41PM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 May 2025 at 08:29, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > The error checking for of_count_phandle_with_args() does not handle
> > > negative error codes correctly.  The problem is that "index" is a u32 so
> > > in the condition "if (index >= num_domains)" negative error codes stored
> > > in "num_domains" are type promoted to very high positive values and
> > > "index" is always going to be valid.
> > >
> > > Test for negative error codes first and then test if "index" is valid.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 3ccf3f0cd197 ("PM / Domains: Enable genpd_dev_pm_attach_by_id|name() for single PM domain")
> > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Thanks for the fix! It looks correct to me!
> >
> > What puzzles me though, if this is a real problem I am sure we would
> > have been receiving bug reports, don't you think?
> >
>
> I think it would only cause an issue for invalid devicetrees?  So it's
> probably not an issue people often see in real life.

Yes, you are probably right.

Anyway, I have applied this for fixes and added a stable tag.

Thanks!
Uffe




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