From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org, Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Fabian Pfitzner <f.pfitzner@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] state: guard against empty variable set in DT
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2025 09:34:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <176224525216.2210227.12703093461803019037.b4-ty@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251103111624.1848136-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
On Mon, 03 Nov 2025 12:16:23 +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> We always initialize state->variables, but there are two places in the
> code that assume there is at least one entry already.
> 
> Change them to use list_first_entry_or_null/list_last_entry_or_null as
> appropriate to catch this issue gracefully.
> 
> This should have only affected state nodes without children, which is
> not a useful device tree description, but nevertheless we should handle
> that somehow instead of reading uninitialized values that may trigger
> a panic or other misbehavior.
> 
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] state: guard against empty variable set in DT
      https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=f1b549a97e50 (link may not be stable)
Best regards,
-- 
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
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