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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2009-04-18 15:05:45 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-20 08:12:58 -0700
commit8a577ffc75d9194fe8cdb7479236f2081c26ca1f (patch)
treef15b037eb9d8463a8fe4a984e35b76e5af34ad67 /lib/kobject.c
parentd91dfbb41bb2e9bdbfbd2cc7078ed7436eab027a (diff)
downloadlinux-8a577ffc75d9194fe8cdb7479236f2081c26ca1f.tar.gz
driver: dont update dev_name via device_add path
notice one system /proc/iomem some entries missed the name for pci_devices

it turns that dev->dev.kobj name is changed after device_add.

for pci code: via acpi_pci_root_driver.ops.add (aka acpi_pci_root_add)
==> pci_acpi_scan_root is used to scan pci bus/device, and at the same
time we read the resource for pci_dev in the pci_read_bases, we have
res->name = pci_name(pci_dev); pci_name is calling dev_name.

later via acpi_pci_root_driver.ops.start (aka acpi_pci_root_start) ==>
pci_bus_add_device to add all pci_dev in kobj tree.  pci_bus_add_device
will call device_add.

actually in device_add

        /* first, register with generic layer. */
        error = kobject_add(&dev->kobj, dev->kobj.parent, "%s", dev_name(dev));
        if (error)
                goto Error;

will get one new name for that kobj, old name is freed.

[Impact: fix corrupted names in /proc/iomem ]

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kobject.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/kobject.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index a6dec32f2ddd..bacf6fe4f7a0 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -218,6 +218,9 @@ int kobject_set_name_vargs(struct kobject *kobj, const char *fmt,
 	const char *old_name = kobj->name;
 	char *s;
 
+	if (kobj->name && !fmt)
+		return 0;
+
 	kobj->name = kvasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, fmt, vargs);
 	if (!kobj->name)
 		return -ENOMEM;