Commit ca3d2ea
power: reset: reboot-mode: better compatibility with DT (replace ' ,/')
This driver's purpose is to parse boot modes described in DT, via key
(node name) / value pairs, and to match them to a reboot mode requested
by the kernel. Unfortunately, DT node names can not contain certain
characters, like space ' ' or comma ',' or slash '/', while the
requested reboot mode may.
This is a problem because it makes it impossible to match reboot modes
containing any of those characters.
For example, this makes it impossible to communicate DM verity errors
to the boot loader - DM verity errors trigger a reboot with mode
"dm-verity device corrupted" in drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c and
devices typically have to take action in that case [1]. Changing this
string itself is not feasible, see e.g. discussion in [2], but would
also just cover this one case.
Another example is Android, which may use comma in the reboot mode
string, e.g. as "shutdown,thermal" in [3].
The kernel also shouldn't prescribe what characters are allowed inside
the boot mode string for a user to set. It hasn't done this so far, and
introducing such a restriction would be an interface break and
arbitrarily enforce a random new policy.
Therefore, update this driver to do another round of string matching,
after replacing the common characters mentioned above with dash '-', if
a match hasn't been found without doing said replacement.
This now allows us to have DT entries of e.g.:
mode-dm-verity-device-corrupted = <...>
and so on.
Link: https://cs.android.com/android/kernel/superproject/+/android14-gs-pixel-6.1:private/google-modules/power/reset/exynos-gs101-reboot.c;l=144 [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAAFS_9FuSb7PZwQ2itUh_H7ZdhvAEiiX7fhxJ4kmmv9JCaHmkA@mail.gmail.com/ [2]
Link: https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/main/+/main:system/core/init/reboot_utils.cpp;drc=79ad1e2e9bf1628c141c8cd2fbb4f3df61a6ba75;l=122 [3]
Signed-off-by: André Draszik <andre.draszik@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250307-reboot-mode-chars-v1-1-d83ff95da524@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com>1 parent 62d4898 commit ca3d2ea
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