From: Kay Sievers Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:05:45 +0000 (-0700) Subject: driver: dont update dev_name via device_add path X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8a577ffc75d9194fe8cdb7479236f2081c26ca1f;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git 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 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index d230ff4b3eec..4aa527b8a913 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -891,7 +891,8 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev) set_dev_node(dev, dev_to_node(parent)); /* first, register with generic layer. */ - error = kobject_add(&dev->kobj, dev->kobj.parent, "%s", dev_name(dev)); + /* we require the name to be set before, and pass NULL */ + error = kobject_add(&dev->kobj, dev->kobj.parent, NULL); if (error) goto Error; 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;