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>
tirimbino
Dmitry Vyukov 7 years ago committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 6840b774dc
commit a5f4276787
  1. 12
      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;

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