[RFC 10/28] drm: rcar-du: of: Increase buff size for compatible variable

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Wed Jan 26 00:53:46 UTC 2022


Hi Geert,

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 09:18:52AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 2:52 PM Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 11:17:19AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 6:46 PM Biju Das wrote:
> > > > Increase buff size for compatible variable to avoid stack corruption
> > > > with RZ/G2L SoC's(renesas,du-r9a07g044l) which requires a buff size
> > > > more than the current allocated size.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Biju Das <biju.das.jz at bp.renesas.com>
> > >
> > > Thanks for your patch!
> > >
> > > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_of.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_of.c
> > > > @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static void __init rcar_du_of_lvds_patch(const struct of_device_id *of_ids)
> > > >         struct device_node *lvds_node;
> > > >         struct device_node *soc_node;
> > > >         struct device_node *du_node;
> > > > -       char compatible[22];
> > > > +       char compatible[24];
> > > >         const char *soc_name;
> > > >         unsigned int i;
> > > >         int ret;
> > >
> > > What about changing the code to use kasprintf() instead, to prevent
> > > this from ever happening again?
> >
> > Or maybe it's time to drop this backward compatibility code altogether ?
> 
> The last R-Car Gen2 DTS was converted in commit edb0c3affe5214a2
> ("ARM: dts: r8a7793: Convert to new LVDS DT bindings") in v4.17.
> The last RZ/G1 DTS was converted in commit 6a6a797625b5fe85 ("ARM:
> dts: r8a7743: Convert to new LVDS DT bindings") in v5.0.
> 
> Both are older than commit 58256143cff7c2e0 ("clk: renesas: Remove
> R-Car Gen2 legacy DT clock support") in v5.5, so I'd say let's get
> rid of it.

Let's do so then. Biju, would you drop the compat code in v2, or would
you like me to send patches ?

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart


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