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From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>,
	 devicetree-compiler@vger.kernel.org, entwicklung@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] libfdt: overlay: ensure that existing phandles are not overwritten
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 09:30:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mpmdkpzzfpw6vrgvpd3e324zouwd4u3oxq7rpmc2sktxjtojj7@gauowuw3mug5> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZdwncYaatDrRBkKU@zatzit>

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Hello David,

On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 04:53:53PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 06:54:23PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > A phandle in an overlay is not supposed to overwrite a phandle that
> > already exists in the base dtb as this breaks references to the
> > respective node in the base.
> > 
> > So add another iteration over the fdto that checks for such overwrites
> > and fixes the fdto phandle's value to match the fdt's.
> > 
> > A test is added that checks that newly added phandles and existing
> > phandles work as expected.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> > ---
> > Hello,
> > 
> > here comes the next iteration of the patch that fixes overlay
> > application to not overwrite existing phandles.
> > 
> > It is rebased to current main branch. The changes since v2 are:
> > 
> >  - Add documentation
> >  - Apply the simplification from 24f60011fd43 ("libfdt: Simplify
> >    adjustment of values for local fixups") in the functions added here.
> >  - Rename functions using shorter and better names
> >  - Changed the test device trees to yield a hole in the phandle space
> >  - Checked each phandle value not being overwritten separately
> > 
> > Note I didn't switch the order of overlay_prevent_phandle_overwrite() and
> > overlay_fixup_phandles() because the overlay's phandles must be resolved
> > before I can do the recursion needed in
> > overlay_prevent_phandle_overwrite().
> 
> I'm not following what you mean here.  IIUC, conflicts of the sort
> you're handling can only arise when the overlay describes a phandle
> for the target node of the reference - and therefore that target is in
> the overlay.  In that case all references to it in the overlay should
> be encoded in __local_fixups__ rather than __fixups__.  __fixups__, in
> contrast describes references to nodes that aren't in the overlay, and
> so can't be filled in - even with a tentative value - until the
> overlay is applied.
> 
> So, I'm not seeing how fixing these conflicts depends on resolution of
> those "external" fixups, rather than just the "local" fixups.  Am I
> missing something?

yupp, look at the overlay dts I added in tests/. It has

	&node_a {
		value = <32>;
	};

which is translated to:

	fragment@1 {
	    target = <0xffffffff>;
	    __overlay__ {
	        value = <0x00000020>;
	    };
	};
	...
	__fixups__ {
	    node_a = ..., "/fragment@1:target:0"
	};

Before I can recurse over fragment@1 and the matching base dtb node to
check for phandle conflicts, I need /fragment@1:target resolved;
otherwise I don't know where to look in the base dtb.

So if I switch the order, fdtoverlay reports

	Failed to apply 'overlay_overlay_phandle.test.dtb': FDT_ERR_BADPHANDLE

in make check.

Best regards
Uwe

-- 
Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-König            |
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  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-10  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-25 17:54 [PATCH v3] libfdt: overlay: ensure that existing phandles are not overwritten Uwe Kleine-König
2024-02-26  5:53 ` David Gibson
2024-03-10  8:30   ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2024-03-14  4:43     ` David Gibson
2024-03-14  9:06       ` Uwe Kleine-König
2024-03-14 10:40 ` David Gibson

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