Re: [patch] kobject: don't oops on null kobject.name

[Chuck Ebbert]

In-Reply-To: <20060114034404.GA23061@xxxxxxxxx>

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Greg KH wrote:

> > I applied your patch to prevent registration of objects with null names on
> > top of my patch, then applied this to see if my test still triggered, and
> > the message was printed:
> 
> What was the message?  What traceback?
> 
> So, I think the point is that it isn't a kobject_add() issue, right?

My message was printed:

        get_kobj_path_length: encountered NULL name

So an uninitialized kobject was passed to kobject_get_path().

This is likely a problem somewhere in IDE when "hdx=ide-scsi' is used.
-- 
Chuck
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