Fix the following errors reported by Jan C. Nordholz in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10751. kobject_add_internal failed for 2 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory. Pid: 1, comm: swapper Tainted: G W 2.6.26-rc3 #1 [<c0266980>] kobject_add_internal+0x140/0x190 [<c0266afd>] kobject_init_and_add+0x2d/0x40 [<c027bc91>] pci_hp_register+0x81/0x2f0 [<c027fd07>] pciehp_probe+0x1a7/0x470 [<c01b3b84>] sysfs_add_one+0x44/0xa0 [<c01b3c1f>] sysfs_addrm_start+0x3f/0xb0 [<c01b497a>] sysfs_create_link+0x8a/0xf0 [<c0279570>] pcie_port_probe_service+0x50/0x80 [<c02e0545>] driver_sysfs_add+0x55/0x70 [<c02e0662>] driver_probe_device+0x82/0x180 [<c02e07cc>] __driver_attach+0x6c/0x70 [<c02dfe0a>] bus_for_each_dev+0x3a/0x60 [<c05db2d0>] pcied_init+0x0/0x80 [<c02e04e6>] driver_attach+0x16/0x20 [<c02e0760>] __driver_attach+0x0/0x70 [<c02e0341>] bus_add_driver+0x1a1/0x220 [<c05db2d0>] pcied_init+0x0/0x80 [<c02e09cd>] driver_register+0x4d/0x120 [<c05db050>] ibm_acpiphp_init+0x0/0x190 [<c0125aab>] printk+0x1b/0x20 [<c05db2d0>] pcied_init+0x0/0x80 [<c05db2de>] pcied_init+0xe/0x80 [<c05c751a>] kernel_init+0x10a/0x300 [<c0120138>] schedule_tail+0x18/0x50 [<c0103b9a>] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x1c [<c05c7410>] kernel_init+0x0/0x300 [<c05c7410>] kernel_init+0x0/0x300 [<c010485b>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x1c ======================= pci_hotplug: Unable to register kobject '2'<3>pciehp: pci_hp_register failed with error -22 Slot with the same name can be registered multiple times if shpchp or pciehp driver is loaded after acpiphp is loaded because ACPI based hotplug driver and Native OS hotplug driver trying to handle the same physical slot. In this case, current pci_hotplug core will call kobject_init_and_add() muliple time with the same name. This is the cause of this problem. To fix this problem, this patch adds the check into pci_hp_register() to see if the slot with the same name. Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug_core.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6.26-rc4/drivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug_core.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.26-rc4.orig/drivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug_core.c +++ linux-2.6.26-rc4/drivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug_core.c @@ -619,6 +619,7 @@ static struct hotplug_slot *get_slot_fro int pci_hp_register (struct hotplug_slot *slot) { int result; + struct hotplug_slot *tmp; if (slot == NULL) return -ENODEV; @@ -630,7 +631,11 @@ int pci_hp_register (struct hotplug_slot return -EINVAL; } - /* this can fail if we have already registered a slot with the same name */ + /* Check if we have already registered a slot with the same name. */ + tmp = get_slot_from_name(slot->name); + if (tmp) + return -EEXIST; + slot->kobj.kset = pci_hotplug_slots_kset; result = kobject_init_and_add(&slot->kobj, &hotplug_slot_ktype, NULL, "%s", slot->name); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
