of: add helper to lookup compatible child node
[ Upstream commit 36156f92 ] Add of_get_compatible_child() helper that can be used to lookup compatible child nodes. Several drivers currently use of_find_compatible_node() to lookup child nodes while failing to notice that the of_find_ functions search the entire tree depth-first (from a given start node) and therefore can match unrelated nodes. The fact that these functions also drop a reference to the node they start searching from (e.g. the parent node) is typically also overlooked, something which can lead to use-after-free bugs. Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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