Revert "kobject: Remove redundant checks for whether ktype is NULL"
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@intel.com>
Fixes: 1b28cb81dab7 ("kobject: Remove redundant checks for whether ktype is NULL")
Cc: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202402071403.e302e33a-oliver.sang@intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2024020849-consensus-length-6264@gregkh
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 59dbcbd..72fa20f 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -74,10 +74,12 @@
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 @@
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 @@
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 @@
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 *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;
