[PATCH v3 06/12] of: overlay: detect cases where device tree may become corrupt

[Alan Tull]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 6:36 PM,  <frowand.list at gmail.com> wrote:

>  static int overlay_notify(struct overlay_changeset *ovcs,
>                 enum of_overlay_notify_action action)
>  {
> @@ -86,8 +109,14 @@ static int overlay_notify(struct overlay_changeset *ovcs,
>
>                 ret = blocking_notifier_call_chain(&overlay_notify_chain,
>                                                    action, &nd);
> -               if (ret)
> -                       return notifier_to_errno(ret);
> +               if (ret == NOTIFY_STOP)
> +                       return 0;
> +               if (ret) {
> +                       ret = notifier_to_errno(ret);
> +                       pr_err("overlay changeset %s notifier error %d, target: %pOF\n",
> +                              of_overlay_action_name[action], ret, nd.target);
> +                       return ret;
> +

Hi Frank,

This will spew lots of "error 0" messages for every notifier that
returns NOTIFY_OK.

rmdir /sys/kernel/config/device-tree/overlays/1
[  131.972505] OF: overlay: overlay changeset pre-remove notifier
error 0, target: /soc/base_fpga_region/fpga_pr_region0
[  131.987879] OF: overlay: overlay changeset post-remove notifier
error 0, target: /soc/base_fpga_region/fpga_pr_region0

I could change fpga-region.c to return NOTIFY_STOP if it is accepting
the overlay, but it will still want to return NOTIFY_OK for every case
where it doesn't have an opinion.

Alan

>         }
>
>         return 0;