From: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
To: Alan Tull <atull@kernel.org>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com>
Cc: Moritz Fischer <mdf@kernel.org>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] of: Add whitelist
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 04:20:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <da4c9b29-eccc-6a67-291a-73a36c1598b5@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1511816284-12145-1-git-send-email-atull@kernel.org>
On 11/27/17 15:58, Alan Tull wrote:
> Here's a proposal for a whitelist to lock down the dynamic device tree.
>
> For an overlay to be accepted, all of its targets are required to be
> on a target node whitelist.
>
> Currently the only way I have to get on the whitelist is calling a
> function to add a node. That works for fpga regions, but I think
> other uses will need a way of having adding specific nodes from the
> base device tree, such as by adding a property like 'allow-overlay;'
> or 'allow-overlay = "okay";' If that is acceptable, I could use some
> advice on where that particular code should go.
>
> Alan
>
> Alan Tull (2):
> of: overlay: add whitelist
> fpga: of region: add of-fpga-region to whitelist
>
> drivers/fpga/of-fpga-region.c | 9 ++++++
> drivers/of/overlay.c | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/of.h | 12 +++++++
> 3 files changed, 94 insertions(+)
>
The plan was to use connectors to restrict where an overlay could be applied.
I would prefer not to have multiple methods for accomplishing the same thing
unless there is a compelling reason to do so.
-Frnank
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-29 9:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-27 20:58 [RFC 0/2] of: Add whitelist Alan Tull
2017-11-27 20:58 ` [RFC 1/2] of: overlay: add whitelist Alan Tull
2017-11-28 15:15 ` Rob Herring
2017-11-28 19:26 ` Alan Tull
2017-11-29 9:25 ` Frank Rowand
2017-11-27 20:58 ` [RFC 2/2] fpga: of region: add of-fpga-region to whitelist Alan Tull
2017-11-29 9:20 ` Frank Rowand [this message]
2017-11-29 13:31 ` [RFC 0/2] of: Add whitelist Rob Herring
2017-11-29 16:11 ` Alan Tull
2017-11-30 12:46 ` Frank Rowand
2017-12-05 16:33 ` Alan Tull
2017-12-06 11:56 ` Frank Rowand
2017-12-07 19:22 ` Alan Tull
2017-11-30 12:18 ` Frank Rowand
2017-12-05 16:55 ` Alan Tull
2017-12-06 11:47 ` Frank Rowand
2017-11-29 22:47 ` Frank Rowand
2017-11-30 14:39 ` Rob Herring
2017-12-06 11:44 ` Frank Rowand
2017-11-30 0:58 ` Frank Rowand
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