checks: add a check for duplicate unit-addresses of child nodes

Child nodes with the same unit-address (and different node names) are
either an error or just bad DT design. Typical errors are the unit-address
is just wrong (i.e. doesn't match reg value) or multiple children using the
same overlapping area. Overlapping regions are considered an error in new
bindings, but do exist in some existing trees. This check should flag
most but not all of those errors. Finding all cases would require doing
address translations and creating a full map of address spaces.

Mixing more than one address/number space at a level is bad design. It only
works if both spaces can use the same #address-cells and #size-cells sizes.
It also complicates parsing have a mixture of types of child nodes. The
best practice in this case is adding child container nodes for each
address/number space or using additional address bits/cells to encode
different address spaces.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/checks.c b/checks.c
index f589d7e..a6ac4bb 100644
--- a/checks.c
+++ b/checks.c
@@ -1023,6 +1023,36 @@ static void check_avoid_unnecessary_addr_size(struct check *c, struct dt_info *d
 }
 WARNING(avoid_unnecessary_addr_size, check_avoid_unnecessary_addr_size, NULL, &avoid_default_addr_size);
 
+static void check_unique_unit_address(struct check *c, struct dt_info *dti,
+					      struct node *node)
+{
+	struct node *childa;
+
+	if (node->addr_cells < 0 || node->size_cells < 0)
+		return;
+
+	if (!node->children)
+		return;
+
+	for_each_child(node, childa) {
+		struct node *childb;
+		const char *addr_a = get_unitname(childa);
+
+		if (!strlen(addr_a))
+			continue;
+
+		for_each_child(node, childb) {
+			const char *addr_b = get_unitname(childb);
+			if (childa == childb)
+				break;
+
+			if (streq(addr_a, addr_b))
+				FAIL(c, dti, childb, "duplicate unit-address (also used in node %s)", childa->fullpath);
+		}
+	}
+}
+WARNING(unique_unit_address, check_unique_unit_address, NULL, &avoid_default_addr_size);
+
 static void check_obsolete_chosen_interrupt_controller(struct check *c,
 						       struct dt_info *dti,
 						       struct node *node)
@@ -1396,6 +1426,7 @@ static struct check *check_table[] = {
 
 	&avoid_default_addr_size,
 	&avoid_unnecessary_addr_size,
+	&unique_unit_address,
 	&obsolete_chosen_interrupt_controller,
 	&chosen_node_is_root, &chosen_node_bootargs, &chosen_node_stdout_path,