Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers/of: Add check for null property in of_remove_property()

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:34 AM, Suraj Jitindar Singh
[off-list ref] wrote:

The validity of the property input argument to of_remove_property() is
never checked within the function and thus it is possible to pass a null
value. It happens that this will be picked up in __of_remove_property()
as no matching property of the device node will be found and thus an
error will be returned, however once again there is no explicit check
for a null value. By the time this is detected 2 locks have already been
acquired which is completely unnecessary if the property to remove is
null.

Add an explicit check in the function of_remove_property() for a null
property value and return -ENODEV in this case, this is consistent with
what the previous return value would have been when the null value was
not detected and passed to __of_remove_property().

By moving an explicit check for the property paramenter into the
of_remove_property() function, this will remove the need to perform this
check in calling code before invocation of the of_remove_property()
function.

Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>

For both patches:

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>