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    powerpc/prom: Avoid reference to potentially freed memory · 1856f50c
    Christophe Jaillet authored
    of_get_property() is used inside the loop, but then the reference to the
    node is dropped before dereferencing the prop pointer, which could by then
    point to junk if the node has been freed.
    
    Instead use of_property_read_u32() to actually read the property
    value before dropping the reference.
    
    of_property_read_u32() requires at least one cell (u32) to be present,
    which is stricter than the old logic which would happily dereference a
    property of any size. However we believe all device trees in the wild
    have at least one cell.
    
    Skiboot may produce memory nodes with more than one cell, but that is
    OK, of_property_read_u32() will return the first one.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
    [mpe: Expand change log with device tree details]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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