[PATCH] smbios: Do not fall back on devicetree without valid mapping

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon May 11 15:10:51 CEST 2026


Hi Mark,

On 2026-05-09T20:31:36, Mark Kettenis <kettenis at openbsd.org> wrote:
> smbios: Do not fall back on devicetree without valid mapping
>
> The smbios_get_val_si() function may get called for a sysinfo
> property for which there is no mapping to a devicetree property.
> Avoid a NULL pointer dereference in this case by skipping the
> read of the mapped property from the device tree.
>
> Fixes: 83b28b55d74f ("smbios: add support for dynamic generation of Type 9 system slot tables")
> Signed-off-by: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at openbsd.org>
> Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org>
>
> lib/smbios.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

> diff --git a/lib/smbios.c b/lib/smbios.c
> @@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ static int smbios_get_val_si(struct smbios_ctx * __maybe_unused ctx,
>
>       /* If the node is still missing, try with the mapping values */
>       nprop = convert_sysinfo_to_dt(ctx->subnode_name, prop);
> -     if (!ofnode_read_u32(ofnode_root(), nprop->dt_str, &val))
> +     if (nprop && !ofnode_read_u32(ofnode_root(), nprop->dt_str, &val))
>               return val;

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

Regards,
Simon


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