From 8a577ffc75d9194fe8cdb7479236f2081c26ca1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kay Sievers Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:05:45 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- drivers/base/core.c | 3 ++- lib/kobject.c | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index d230ff4..4aa527b 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 a6dec32..bacf6fe 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; -- 2.7.4