Commit 282029c0 authored Apr 06, 2012 by Dan Williams Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Apr 10, 2012

kobject: provide more diagnostic info for kobject_add_internal() failures



1/ convert open-coded KERN_ERR+dump_stack() to WARN(), so that automated
   tools pick up this warning.

2/ include the 'child' and 'parent' kobject names.  This information was
   useful for tracking down the case where scsi invoked device_del() on a
   parent object and subsequently invoked device_add() on a child.  Now the
   warning looks like:

     kobject_add_internal failed for target8:0:16 (error: -2 parent: end_device-8:0:24)
     Pid: 2942, comm: scsi_scan_8 Not tainted 3.3.0-rc7-isci+ #2
     Call Trace:
      [<ffffffff8125e551>] kobject_add_internal+0x1c1/0x1f3
      [<ffffffff81075149>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
      [<ffffffff8125e659>] kobject_add_varg+0x41/0x50
      [<ffffffff8125e723>] kobject_add+0x64/0x66
      [<ffffffff8131124b>] device_add+0x12d/0x63a
      [<ffffffff8125e0ef>] ? kobject_put+0x4c/0x50
      [<ffffffff8132f370>] scsi_sysfs_add_sdev+0x4e/0x28a
      [<ffffffff8132dce3>] do_scan_async+0x9c/0x145

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

parent 3a198886

lib/kobject.c

+7 −7

Original line number	Original line	Diff line number	Diff line
	@@ -192,14 +192,14 @@ static int kobject_add_internal(struct kobject *kobj)

	/* be noisy on error issues */		/* be noisy on error issues */
	if (error == -EEXIST)		if (error == -EEXIST)
	printk(KERN_ERR "%s failed for %s with "		WARN(1, "%s failed for %s with "
	"-EEXIST, don't try to register things with "		"-EEXIST, don't try to register things with "
	"the same name in the same directory.\n",		"the same name in the same directory.\n",
	__func__, kobject_name(kobj));		__func__, kobject_name(kobj));
	else		else
	printk(KERN_ERR "%s failed for %s (%d)\n",		WARN(1, "%s failed for %s (error: %d parent: %s)\n",
	__func__, kobject_name(kobj), error);		__func__, kobject_name(kobj), error,
	dump_stack();		parent ? kobject_name(parent) : "'none'");
	} else		} else
	kobj->state_in_sysfs = 1;		kobj->state_in_sysfs = 1;

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