kobject: don't use WARN for registration failures

This WARNING proved to be noisy. The function still returns an error
and callers should handle it. That's how most of kernel code works.
Downgrade the WARNING to pr_err() and leave WARNINGs for kernel bugs.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+209c0f67f99fec8eb14b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+7fb6d9525a4528104e05@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+2e63711063e2d8f9ea27@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+de73361ee4971b6e6f75@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Dmitry Vyukov 2018-04-11 17:22:43 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent df9267f1fb
commit 3e14c6abbf
1 changed files with 5 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -233,13 +233,12 @@ static int kobject_add_internal(struct kobject *kobj)
/* be noisy on error issues */
if (error == -EEXIST)
WARN(1,
"%s failed for %s with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.\n",
__func__, kobject_name(kobj));
pr_err("%s failed for %s with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.\n",
__func__, kobject_name(kobj));
else
WARN(1, "%s failed for %s (error: %d parent: %s)\n",
__func__, kobject_name(kobj), error,
parent ? kobject_name(parent) : "'none'");
pr_err("%s failed for %s (error: %d parent: %s)\n",
__func__, kobject_name(kobj), error,
parent ? kobject_name(parent) : "'none'");
} else
kobj->state_in_sysfs = 1;