driver: dont update dev_name via device_add path
notice one system /proc/iomem some entries missed the name for pci_devices
it turns that dev->dev.kobj name is changed after device_add.
for pci code: via acpi_pci_root_driver.ops.add (aka acpi_pci_root_add)
==> pci_acpi_scan_root is used to scan pci bus/device, and at the same
time we read the resource for pci_dev in the pci_read_bases, we have
res->name = pci_name(pci_dev); pci_name is calling dev_name.
later via acpi_pci_root_driver.ops.start (aka acpi_pci_root_start) ==>
pci_bus_add_device to add all pci_dev in kobj tree. pci_bus_add_device
will call device_add.
actually in device_add
/* first, register with generic layer. */
error = kobject_add(&dev->kobj, dev->kobj.parent, "%s", dev_name(dev));
if (error)
goto Error;
will get one new name for that kobj, old name is freed.
[Impact: fix corrupted names in /proc/iomem ]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index d230ff4..4aa527b 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -891,7 +891,8 @@
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;
