From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] kobject: don't oops on null kobject.name
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:18:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601141121_MC3-1-B5DD-2BA3@compuserve.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060114034404.GA23061@kroah.com>
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Greg KH wrote:
> > I applied your patch to prevent registration of objects with null names on
> > top of my patch, then applied this to see if my test still triggered, and
> > the message was printed:
>
> What was the message? What traceback?
>
> So, I think the point is that it isn't a kobject_add() issue, right?
My message was printed:
get_kobj_path_length: encountered NULL name
So an uninitialized kobject was passed to kobject_get_path().
This is likely a problem somewhere in IDE when "hdx=ide-scsi' is used.
--
Chuck
Currently reading: _Olympos_ by Dan Simmons
next reply other threads:[~2006-01-14 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-14 16:18 Chuck Ebbert [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-06 20:29 [PATCH] SPI: spi_butterfly, restore lost deltas Greg KH
2006-02-06 20:29 ` [PATCH] kobject: don't oops on null kobject.name Greg KH
2006-01-14 3:07 [patch] " Chuck Ebbert
2006-01-14 3:44 ` Greg KH
2006-01-14 3:07 Chuck Ebbert
2006-01-13 1:02 Chuck Ebbert
2006-01-13 22:30 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-13 22:55 ` Greg KH
2006-01-13 23:12 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-14 0:02 ` Greg KH
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