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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kobject.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kobject.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index 0380ec889a6a..ba1017cd67d1 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -834,6 +834,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kobj_sysfs_ops); /** * kset_register() - Initialize and add a kset. * @k: kset. + * + * NOTE: On error, the kset.kobj.name allocated by() kobj_set_name() + * is freed, it can not be used any more. */ int kset_register(struct kset *k) { @@ -844,8 +847,12 @@ int kset_register(struct kset *k) kset_init(k); err = kobject_add_internal(&k->kobj); - if (err) + if (err) { + kfree_const(k->kobj.name); + /* Set it to NULL to avoid accessing bad pointer in callers. */ + k->kobj.name = NULL; return err; + } kobject_uevent(&k->kobj, KOBJ_ADD); return 0; } |