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Michael

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On Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:56:16 +0100, Christian Melki 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On some setups, these cause build errors.
> Fixed upstream. Apply now, probably remove in next stable release.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Melki <[email protected]>
> Message-Id: <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Olbrich <[email protected]>
> 
> diff --git a/patches/dtc-1.7.2/0001-Fix-discarded-const-qualifiers.patch 
> b/patches/dtc-1.7.2/0001-Fix-discarded-const-qualifiers.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..766dbccc2427
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/patches/dtc-1.7.2/0001-Fix-discarded-const-qualifiers.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
> +From: Stephen Gallagher <[email protected]>
> +Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 14:19:30 -0500
> +Subject: [PATCH] Fix discarded const qualifiers
> +
> +It's unsafe to implicitly discard the const qualifier on a pointer. In
> +overlay_fixup_phandle(), this was probably just an oversight, and making
> +the "sep" variable a const char * is sufficient to fix it.
> +
> +In create_node(), however, the "p" variable is directly modifying the
> +buffer pointed to by "const char* node_name". To fix this, we need to
> +actually make a duplicate of the buffer and operate on that instead.
> +
> +This introduces a malloc()/free()  and an unbounded strdup() into the
> +operation, but fdtput isn't a long-running service and the node_name
> +argument comes directly from argv, so this shouldn't introduce a
> +significant performance impact.
> +
> +Signed-off-by: Stephen Gallagher <[email protected]>
> +Signed-off-by: David Gibson <[email protected]>
> +---
> + fdtput.c             | 8 +++++---
> + libfdt/fdt_overlay.c | 3 ++-
> + meson.build          | 1 +
> + 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> +
> +diff --git a/fdtput.c b/fdtput.c
> +index c2fecf45a977..8deec7eebcf5 100644
> +--- a/fdtput.c
> ++++ b/fdtput.c
> +@@ -230,19 +230,21 @@ static int create_paths(char **blob, const char 
> *in_path)
> + static int create_node(char **blob, const char *node_name)
> + {
> +     int node = 0;
> +-    char *p;
> ++    const char *p;
> ++    char *path = NULL;
> + 
> +     p = strrchr(node_name, '/');
> +     if (!p) {
> +             report_error(node_name, -1, -FDT_ERR_BADPATH);
> +             return -1;
> +     }
> +-    *p = '\0';
> + 
> +     *blob = realloc_node(*blob, p + 1);
> + 
> +     if (p > node_name) {
> +-            node = fdt_path_offset(*blob, node_name);
> ++            path = xstrndup(node_name, (size_t)(p - node_name));
> ++            node = fdt_path_offset(*blob, path);
> ++            free(path);
> +             if (node < 0) {
> +                     report_error(node_name, -1, node);
> +                     return -1;
> +diff --git a/libfdt/fdt_overlay.c b/libfdt/fdt_overlay.c
> +index 28b667ffc490..5f8aa62b2686 100644
> +--- a/libfdt/fdt_overlay.c
> ++++ b/libfdt/fdt_overlay.c
> +@@ -409,7 +409,8 @@ static int overlay_fixup_phandle(void *fdt, void *fdto, 
> int symbols_off,
> +             const char *fixup_str = value;
> +             uint32_t path_len, name_len;
> +             uint32_t fixup_len;
> +-            char *sep, *endptr;
> ++            const char *sep;
> ++            char *endptr;
> +             int poffset, ret;
> + 
> +             fixup_end = memchr(value, '\0', len);
> +diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
> +index 310699f0c874..2966b0614a69 100644
> +--- a/meson.build
> ++++ b/meson.build
> +@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ add_project_arguments(
> +     '-Wshadow',
> +     '-Wsuggest-attribute=format',
> +     '-Wwrite-strings',
> ++    '-Wdiscarded-qualifiers',
> +   ]),
> +   language: 'c'
> + )
> diff --git a/patches/dtc-1.7.2/series b/patches/dtc-1.7.2/series
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..d6c2782c41ab
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/patches/dtc-1.7.2/series
> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> +# generated by git-ptx-patches
> +#tag:base --start-number 1
> +0001-Fix-discarded-const-qualifiers.patch
> +# 3a8b95763e3400e890427bab311c296a  - git-ptx-patches magic

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