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-rw-r--r--lib/kobject.c79
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 40 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 1326041213dd..10ae2ebeaf96 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ int kobject_shadow_add(struct kobject *kobj, struct sysfs_dirent *shadow_parent)
if (!(kobj = kobject_get(kobj)))
return -ENOENT;
if (!kobj->k_name)
- kobj->k_name = kobj->name;
+ kobject_set_name(kobj, "NO_NAME");
if (!*kobj->k_name) {
pr_debug("kobject attempted to be registered with no name!\n");
WARN_ON(1);
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ int kobject_shadow_add(struct kobject *kobj, struct sysfs_dirent *shadow_parent)
pr_debug("kobject %s: registering. parent: %s, set: %s\n",
kobject_name(kobj), parent ? kobject_name(parent) : "<NULL>",
- kobj->kset ? kobj->kset->kobj.name : "<NULL>" );
+ kobj->kset ? kobject_name(&kobj->kset->kobj) : "<NULL>" );
if (kobj->kset) {
spin_lock(&kobj->kset->list_lock);
@@ -255,54 +255,50 @@ int kobject_register(struct kobject * kobj)
int kobject_set_name(struct kobject * kobj, const char * fmt, ...)
{
int error = 0;
- int limit = KOBJ_NAME_LEN;
+ int limit;
int need;
va_list args;
- char * name;
+ char *name;
- /*
- * First, try the static array
- */
- va_start(args,fmt);
- need = vsnprintf(kobj->name,limit,fmt,args);
+ /* find out how big a buffer we need */
+ name = kmalloc(1024, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!name) {
+ error = -ENOMEM;
+ goto done;
+ }
+ va_start(args, fmt);
+ need = vsnprintf(name, 1024, fmt, args);
va_end(args);
- if (need < limit)
- name = kobj->name;
- else {
- /*
- * Need more space? Allocate it and try again
- */
- limit = need + 1;
- name = kmalloc(limit,GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!name) {
- error = -ENOMEM;
- goto Done;
- }
- va_start(args,fmt);
- need = vsnprintf(name,limit,fmt,args);
- va_end(args);
-
- /* Still? Give up. */
- if (need >= limit) {
- kfree(name);
- error = -EFAULT;
- goto Done;
- }
+ kfree(name);
+
+ /* Allocate the new space and copy the string in */
+ limit = need + 1;
+ name = kmalloc(limit, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!name) {
+ error = -ENOMEM;
+ goto done;
+ }
+ va_start(args, fmt);
+ need = vsnprintf(name, limit, fmt, args);
+ va_end(args);
+
+ /* something wrong with the string we copied? */
+ if (need >= limit) {
+ kfree(name);
+ error = -EFAULT;
+ goto done;
}
/* Free the old name, if necessary. */
- if (kobj->k_name && kobj->k_name != kobj->name)
- kfree(kobj->k_name);
+ kfree(kobj->k_name);
/* Now, set the new name */
kobj->k_name = name;
- Done:
+done:
return error;
}
-
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_set_name);
-
/**
* kobject_rename - change the name of an object
* @kobj: object in question.
@@ -477,13 +473,16 @@ void kobject_cleanup(struct kobject * kobj)
struct kobj_type * t = get_ktype(kobj);
struct kset * s = kobj->kset;
struct kobject * parent = kobj->parent;
+ const char *name = kobj->k_name;
pr_debug("kobject %s: cleaning up\n",kobject_name(kobj));
- if (kobj->k_name != kobj->name)
- kfree(kobj->k_name);
- kobj->k_name = NULL;
- if (t && t->release)
+ if (t && t->release) {
t->release(kobj);
+ /* If we have a release function, we can guess that this was
+ * not a statically allocated kobject, so we should be safe to
+ * free the name */
+ kfree(name);
+ }
if (s)
kset_put(s);
kobject_put(parent);