From 3e14c6abbfb5c94506edda9d8e2c145d79375798 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:22:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] kobject: don't use WARN for registration failures
Git-commit: 3e14c6abbfb5c94506edda9d8e2c145d79375798
Patch-mainline: v4.17-rc3
References: bsc#1051510
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>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
---
lib/kobject.c | 11 +++++------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index e1d1f290bf35..18989b5b3b56 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;
--
2.17.1