Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 2/6] kobject: check for duplicate names in kobject_rename | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:11:41 -0700 |
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This should catch any duplicate names before we try to tell sysfs to rename the object. This happens a lot with older versions of udev and the network rename scripts.
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> --- lib/kobject.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index 03d4036..a7e3bf4 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -308,6 +308,19 @@ int kobject_rename(struct kobject * kobj, const char *new_name) if (!kobj->parent) return -EINVAL; + /* see if this name is already in use */ + if (kobj->kset) { + struct kobject *temp_kobj; + temp_kobj = kset_find_obj(kobj->kset, new_name); + if (temp_kobj) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "kobject '%s' can not be renamed " + "to '%s' as '%s' is already in existance.\n", + kobject_name(kobj), new_name, new_name); + kobject_put(temp_kobj); + return -EINVAL; + } + } + devpath = kobject_get_path(kobj, GFP_KERNEL); if (!devpath) { error = -ENOMEM; -- 1.5.3.4 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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