From a5f4276787d63f726b751d80b5b51f0c8d4d0384 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
commit 3e14c6abbfb5c94506edda9d8e2c145d79375798 upstream.
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>
---
lib/kobject.c | 12 +++++-------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 763d70a18941..34f847252c02 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -234,14 +234,12 @@ 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;
--
2.49.0