Re: [PATCH v6 1/9] block: partitions: of: Skip child nodes without reg property

Rob Herring <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 10:55:20AM +0200, Loic Poulain wrote:
> Child nodes of a fixed-partitions node are not necessarily partition
> entries, for example an nvmem-layout node has no reg property. The
> current code passes a NULL reg pointer and uninitialized len to the
> length check, which can result in a kernel panic or silent failure to
> register any partitions.

That does not sound right to me. A fixed-partitions node should only be 
defining partitions with address ranges. I would expect a partition node 
could be nvmem-layout, but not the whole address range. If you wanted 
the latter, then just do:

partitions {
  ...
};

nvmem-layout {
  ...
};

Rob
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