From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:32848 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755816AbeD3T0y (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:26:54 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Vyukov , syzbot+209c0f67f99fec8eb14b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com, syzbot+7fb6d9525a4528104e05@syzkaller.appspotmail.com, syzbot+2e63711063e2d8f9ea27@syzkaller.appspotmail.com, syzbot+de73361ee4971b6e6f75@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Subject: [PATCH 4.9 39/61] kobject: dont use WARN for registration failures Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 12:24:42 -0700 Message-Id: <20180430183954.632232883@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180430183951.312721450@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180430183951.312721450@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dmitry Vyukov 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 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- lib/kobject.c | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -234,14 +234,12 @@ static int kobject_add_internal(struct k /* 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;