[PATCH 2/2] fdtgrep: Handle an empty output tree

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Wed Dec 8 17:55:35 CET 2021


In strange cases it is possible for fdtgrep to find nothing to output.
Typically this means that the resulting SPL device tree is not going to
allow anything to boot, but at present the tree is actually invalid,
since it only has an END tag in the struct region.

The FDT spec requires at least a root node. So add a special case to
include at least this, if the FDT_REG_SUPERNODES flag is set.

This ensures that grepping an empty tree still produces a valid tree.

Also add comments to the enum since it is not completely obvious from
the names now.

The typical symptom of this problem is a message from binman:

   pylibfdt error -11: FDT_ERR_BADSTRUCTURE

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---

 boot/fdt_region.c    | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 include/fdt_region.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/boot/fdt_region.c b/boot/fdt_region.c
index e4ef0ca7703..bac55593294 100644
--- a/boot/fdt_region.c
+++ b/boot/fdt_region.c
@@ -185,6 +185,8 @@ static int fdt_add_region(struct fdt_region_state *info, int offset, int size)
 			reg++;
 			reg->offset = offset;
 			reg->size = size;
+			if (!(offset - fdt_off_dt_struct(info->fdt)))
+				info->have_node = true;
 		}
 	} else {
 		return -1;
@@ -342,13 +344,19 @@ static int fdt_include_supernodes(struct fdt_region_state *info, int depth)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Tracks the progress through the device tree. Everything fdt_next_region() is
+ * called it picks up at the same state as last time, looks at info->start and
+ * decides what region to add next
+ */
 enum {
-	FDT_DONE_NOTHING,
-	FDT_DONE_MEM_RSVMAP,
-	FDT_DONE_STRUCT,
-	FDT_DONE_END,
-	FDT_DONE_STRINGS,
-	FDT_DONE_ALL,
+	FDT_DONE_NOTHING,	/* Starting */
+	FDT_DONE_MEM_RSVMAP,	/* Completed mem_rsvmap region */
+	FDT_DONE_STRUCT,	/* Completed struct region */
+	FDT_DONE_EMPTY,		/* Completed checking for empty struct region */
+	FDT_DONE_END,		/* Completed the FDT_END tag */
+	FDT_DONE_STRINGS,	/* Completed the strings */
+	FDT_DONE_ALL,		/* All done */
 };
 
 int fdt_first_region(const void *fdt,
@@ -365,6 +373,7 @@ int fdt_first_region(const void *fdt,
 	info->can_merge = 1;
 	info->max_regions = 1;
 	info->start = -1;
+	info->have_node = false;
 	p->want = WANT_NOTHING;
 	p->end = path;
 	*p->end = '\0';
@@ -633,6 +642,8 @@ int fdt_next_region(const void *fdt,
 		 * region.
 		 */
 		if (!include && info->start != -1) {
+			if (!info->start)
+				info->have_node = true;
 			if (fdt_add_region(info, base + info->start,
 					   stop_at - info->start))
 				return 0;
@@ -644,11 +655,31 @@ int fdt_next_region(const void *fdt,
 		info->ptrs = p;
 	}
 
+	if (info->ptrs.done < FDT_DONE_EMPTY) {
+		/*
+		 * Handle a special case where no nodes have been written. Write
+		 * the first { so we have at least something, since
+		 * FDT_REG_SUPERNODES means that a valid tree is required. A
+		 * tree with no nodes is not valid
+		 */
+		if ((flags & FDT_REG_SUPERNODES) && !info->have_node &&
+		    info->start) {
+			/* Output the FDT_BEGIN_NODE and the empty name */
+			if (fdt_add_region(info, base, 8))
+				return 0;
+		}
+		info->ptrs.done++;
+	}
+
 	/* Add a region for the END tag and a separate one for string table */
 	if (info->ptrs.done < FDT_DONE_END) {
 		if (info->ptrs.nextoffset != fdt_size_dt_struct(fdt))
 			return -FDT_ERR_BADSTRUCTURE;
 
+		/* Output the } before the end tag to finish it off */
+		if (info->start == fdt_size_dt_struct(fdt) - 4)
+			info->start -= 4;
+
 		if (fdt_add_region(info, base + info->start,
 				   info->ptrs.nextoffset - info->start))
 			return 0;
diff --git a/include/fdt_region.h b/include/fdt_region.h
index ff7a1ccb9af..d0c68760f78 100644
--- a/include/fdt_region.h
+++ b/include/fdt_region.h
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ struct fdt_region_state {
 	int max_regions;		/* Maximum regions to find */
 	int can_merge;		/* 1 if we can merge with previous region */
 	int start;			/* Start position of current region */
+	bool have_node;			/* True if any node is included */
 	struct fdt_region_ptrs ptrs;	/* Pointers for what we are up to */
 };
 
-- 
2.34.1.400.ga245620fadb-goog



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