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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: base: core: do not put noninitialized devices
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:02:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101119190242.GA14328@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290192100-11451-1-git-send-email-segoon@openwall.com>

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 09:41:40PM +0300, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> If kobject_set_name_vargs() fails then put_device() frees
> device with zero kobj->state_initialized.  This leads to WARN().

Have you seen this happen?

> Divide device_register() call to device_initialize() call before
> kobject_set_name_vargs() and device_add() call after it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
> ---
>  Compile tested only.

I'd prefer not to change this unless you are seeing problems with the
current code.

How did kobject_set_name_vargs() fail for you?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-19 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-19 18:41 [PATCH] drivers: base: core: do not put noninitialized devices Vasiliy Kulikov
2010-11-19 19:02 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-11-19 19:14   ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2010-11-19 19:17     ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2010-11-19 20:57     ` Greg KH
2010-11-20  9:00       ` Vasiliy Kulikov

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