Commit c171fef5 authored Jan 20, 2006 by Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] kobject_add() must have a valid name in order to succeed.



So we might as well check to verify this, and let the user know that
something is wrong if they didn't do it correctly, instead of oopsing
later on in kobject_get_name() or somewhere else.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

parent e3f749c4

lib/kobject.c

+5 −0

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		@@ -162,6 +162,11 @@ int kobject_add(struct kobject * kobj)
		return -ENOENT;
		if (!kobj->k_name)
		kobj->k_name = kobj->name;
		if (!kobj->k_name) {
		pr_debug("kobject attempted to be registered with no name!\n");
		WARN_ON(1);
		return -EINVAL;
		}
		parent = kobject_get(kobj->parent);

		pr_debug("kobject %s: registering. parent: %s, set: %s\n",