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Subject[PATCH] sysfs: turn WARN() into pr_warn()
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

It's not good to crash the machine if panic_on_warn() is set just
because someone made a stupid mistake of trying to create a sysfs file
with the same name of an existing one. This makes the automated testing
tools a lot harder to find the real bugs in the kernel.

So just print a warning out and dump the stack to get the attention of
the developer that they did something foolish. Then keep on trucking,
as this should not be a fatal error at all.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

Dmitry, does this look good to you? If so, I'll queue it up for
4.16-rc1.


diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index 2b67bda2021b..3a36a48a4b3f 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
* Please see Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt for more information.
*/

+#define pr_fmt(fmt) "sysfs: " fmt
#undef DEBUG

#include <linux/fs.h>
@@ -27,8 +28,8 @@ void sysfs_warn_dup(struct kernfs_node *parent, const char *name)
if (buf)
kernfs_path(parent, buf, PATH_MAX);

- WARN(1, KERN_WARNING "sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '%s/%s'\n",
- buf, name);
+ pr_warn("cannot create duplicate filename '%s/%s'\n", buf, name);
+ dump_stack();

kfree(buf);
}
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