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-rw-r--r--drivers/base/core.c3
-rw-r--r--lib/kobject.c3
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index d230ff4b3ee..4aa527b8a91 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -891,7 +891,8 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
set_dev_node(dev, dev_to_node(parent));
/* first, register with generic layer. */
- error = kobject_add(&dev->kobj, dev->kobj.parent, "%s", dev_name(dev));
+ /* we require the name to be set before, and pass NULL */
+ error = kobject_add(&dev->kobj, dev->kobj.parent, NULL);
if (error)
goto Error;
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index a6dec32f2dd..bacf6fe4f7a 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -218,6 +218,9 @@ int kobject_set_name_vargs(struct kobject *kobj, const char *fmt,
const char *old_name = kobj->name;
char *s;
+ if (kobj->name && !fmt)
+ return 0;
+
kobj->name = kvasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, fmt, vargs);
if (!kobj->name)
return -ENOMEM;