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>
/* be noisy on error issues */
if (error == -EEXIST)
/* 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));
- 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;
} else
kobj->state_in_sysfs = 1;