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| author | Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> | 2018-04-11 17:22:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-04-23 13:14:55 +0200 |
| commit | 3e14c6abbfb5c94506edda9d8e2c145d79375798 (patch) | |
| tree | 08c20e52fcc976652b64b9e775b70a28adf4ef30 /lib | |
| parent | df9267f1fb6b56fa573cc93c611009b0bd126878 (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-3e14c6abbfb5c94506edda9d8e2c145d79375798.zip op-kernel-dev-3e14c6abbfb5c94506edda9d8e2c145d79375798.tar.gz | |
kobject: don't use WARN for registration failures
This WARNING proved to be noisy. The function still returns an error
and callers should handle it. That's how most of kernel code works.
Downgrade the WARNING to pr_err() and leave WARNINGs for kernel bugs.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+209c0f67f99fec8eb14b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+7fb6d9525a4528104e05@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+2e63711063e2d8f9ea27@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+de73361ee4971b6e6f75@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kobject.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index e1d1f29..18989b5 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -233,13 +233,12 @@ static int kobject_add_internal(struct kobject *kobj) /* be noisy on error issues */ if (error == -EEXIST) - WARN(1, - "%s failed for %s with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.\n", - __func__, kobject_name(kobj)); + pr_err("%s failed for %s with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.\n", + __func__, kobject_name(kobj)); else - WARN(1, "%s failed for %s (error: %d parent: %s)\n", - __func__, kobject_name(kobj), error, - parent ? kobject_name(parent) : "'none'"); + pr_err("%s failed for %s (error: %d parent: %s)\n", + __func__, kobject_name(kobj), error, + parent ? kobject_name(parent) : "'none'"); } else kobj->state_in_sysfs = 1; |
