On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 05:30:54PM +0800, Yangtao Li wrote: > Add kobject_is_added() to avoid consumers from directly accessing > the internal variables of kobject. > > Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li@xxxxxxxx> > --- > include/linux/kobject.h | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h > index bdab370a24f4..b5cdb0c58729 100644 > --- a/include/linux/kobject.h > +++ b/include/linux/kobject.h > @@ -203,6 +203,11 @@ static inline const struct kobj_type *get_ktype(const struct kobject *kobj) > return kobj->ktype; > } > > +static inline int kobject_is_added(struct kobject *kobj) > +{ > + return kobj->state_in_sysfs; > +} > + No, this implies that the caller is not doing something correctly as it should always know if it has added a kobject or not. Let me review the please where you used this to find the problems there... thanks, greg k-h