6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 3ca8fbabcceb8bfe44f7f50640092fd8f1de375c ]
This reverts commit 1b28cb81dab7c1eedc6034206f4e8d644046ad31.
It is reported to cause problems, so revert it for now until the root
cause can be found.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 1b28cb81dab7 ("kobject: Remove redundant checks for whether ktype is NULL")
Cc: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202402071403.e302e33a-oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2024020849-consensus-length-6264@gregkh
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/kobject.c | 24 ++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 59dbcbdb1c91..72fa20f405f1 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -74,10 +74,12 @@ static int create_dir(struct kobject *kobj)
if (error)
return error;
- error = sysfs_create_groups(kobj, ktype->default_groups);
- if (error) {
- sysfs_remove_dir(kobj);
- return error;
+ if (ktype) {
+ error = sysfs_create_groups(kobj, ktype->default_groups);
+ if (error) {
+ sysfs_remove_dir(kobj);
+ return error;
+ }
}
/*
@@ -589,7 +591,8 @@ static void __kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj)
sd = kobj->sd;
ktype = get_ktype(kobj);
- sysfs_remove_groups(kobj, ktype->default_groups);
+ if (ktype)
+ sysfs_remove_groups(kobj, ktype->default_groups);
/* send "remove" if the caller did not do it but sent "add" */
if (kobj->state_add_uevent_sent && !kobj->state_remove_uevent_sent) {
@@ -666,6 +669,10 @@ static void kobject_cleanup(struct kobject *kobj)
pr_debug("'%s' (%p): %s, parent %p\n",
kobject_name(kobj), kobj, __func__, kobj->parent);
+ if (t && !t->release)
+ pr_debug("'%s' (%p): does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. See Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst.\n",
+ kobject_name(kobj), kobj);
+
/* remove from sysfs if the caller did not do it */
if (kobj->state_in_sysfs) {
pr_debug("'%s' (%p): auto cleanup kobject_del\n",
@@ -676,13 +683,10 @@ static void kobject_cleanup(struct kobject *kobj)
parent = NULL;
}
- if (t->release) {
+ if (t && t->release) {
pr_debug("'%s' (%p): calling ktype release\n",
kobject_name(kobj), kobj);
t->release(kobj);
- } else {
- pr_debug("'%s' (%p): does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. See Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst.\n",
- kobject_name(kobj), kobj);
}
/* free name if we allocated it */
@@ -1056,7 +1060,7 @@ const struct kobj_ns_type_operations *kobj_child_ns_ops(const struct kobject *pa
{
const struct kobj_ns_type_operations *ops = NULL;
- if (parent && parent->ktype->child_ns_type)
+ if (parent && parent->ktype && parent->ktype->child_ns_type)
ops = parent->ktype->child_ns_type(parent);
return ops;
--
2.43.0
