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authorSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2022-09-07 05:27:32 +0300
committerTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>2022-09-30 05:43:43 +0300
commit0b58eaa89c4d7a4aea1f7f63ff4aca2c2f1d90c4 (patch)
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downloadu-boot-0b58eaa89c4d7a4aea1f7f63ff4aca2c2f1d90c4.tar.xz
dm: core: Allow copying ofnode property data when writing
At present ofnode_write_prop() is inconsistent between livetree and flattree, in that livetree requires the caller to ensure the property value is stable (e.g. in rodata or allocated) but flattree does not, since it makes a copy. This makes the API call a bit painful to use, since the caller must do different things depending on OF_LIVE. Add a new 'copy' argument which tells the function to make a copy if needed. Add some tests to cover this behaviour. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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diff --git a/doc/develop/driver-model/livetree.rst b/doc/develop/driver-model/livetree.rst
index 65b88f854e..55aa3eac92 100644
--- a/doc/develop/driver-model/livetree.rst
+++ b/doc/develop/driver-model/livetree.rst
@@ -325,3 +325,5 @@ Live tree support was introduced in U-Boot 2017.07. Some possible enhancements
are:
- support for livetree in SPL and before relocation (if desired)
+- freeing leaked memory caused by writing new nodes / property values to the
+ livetree (ofnode_write_prop())