[PATCH] driver: make dev_set_name(, NULL) work

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Tue Apr 28 2009 - 03:39:20 EST



while looking dev_set_name() calling, there is one
dev_set_name(&dev->dev, NULL)
to used to try to free the device name, before kfree that device.

need to move the check for device_add in
| commit 8a577ffc75d9194fe8cdb7479236f2081c26ca1f
| Author: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
| Date: Sat Apr 18 15:05:45 2009 -0700
|
| driver: dont update dev_name via device_add path
from kobject_set_name_vargs to kobject_add_vargs instead.

in kobject_set_name_vargs will check if fmt is NULL.

actually we need to use dev_set_name(,NULL) later on failing path
and release to prevent leaking

[ Impact: make dev_set_name(, NULL) could kfree old name ]

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
lib/kobject.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/lib/kobject.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/lib/kobject.c
+++ linux-2.6/lib/kobject.c
@@ -218,8 +218,8 @@ int kobject_set_name_vargs(struct kobjec
const char *old_name = kobj->name;
char *s;

- if (kobj->name && !fmt)
- return 0;
+ if (!fmt)
+ goto out;

kobj->name = kvasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, fmt, vargs);
if (!kobj->name)
@@ -229,6 +229,7 @@ int kobject_set_name_vargs(struct kobjec
while ((s = strchr(kobj->name, '/')))
s[0] = '!';

+out:
kfree(old_name);
return 0;
}
@@ -301,11 +302,16 @@ static int kobject_add_varg(struct kobje
{
int retval;

+ if (kobj->name && !fmt)
+ goto add_with_name;
+
retval = kobject_set_name_vargs(kobj, fmt, vargs);
if (retval) {
printk(KERN_ERR "kobject: can not set name properly!\n");
return retval;
}
+
+add_with_name:
kobj->parent = parent;
return kobject_add_internal(kobj);
}
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