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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-01-18 12:23:51 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-02-07 10:37:10 -0800
commit31b9025aa0f89b392077db3f87458fd46bcc4f58 (patch)
treed91abfcfd10f78813011c8a33d176d492c368c66 /lib
parent5331be090567d9335476f876b2d85427cd7c4426 (diff)
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Kobject: make kobject apis more robust in handling NULL pointers
It should be ok to pass in NULL for some kobject functions, so add error checking for all exported kobject functions to be more robust. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/kobject.c19
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 7ce6dc138e90..9aed594bfcac 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -126,6 +126,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kobject_get_path);
*/
void kobject_init(struct kobject * kobj)
{
+ if (!kobj)
+ return;
kref_init(&kobj->kref);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kobj->entry);
init_waitqueue_head(&kobj->poll);
@@ -366,6 +368,8 @@ out:
void kobject_del(struct kobject * kobj)
{
+ if (!kobj)
+ return;
sysfs_remove_dir(kobj);
unlink(kobj);
}
@@ -377,6 +381,8 @@ void kobject_del(struct kobject * kobj)
void kobject_unregister(struct kobject * kobj)
{
+ if (!kobj)
+ return;
pr_debug("kobject %s: unregistering\n",kobject_name(kobj));
kobject_uevent(kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
kobject_del(kobj);
@@ -523,6 +529,8 @@ int kset_add(struct kset * k)
int kset_register(struct kset * k)
{
+ if (!k)
+ return -EINVAL;
kset_init(k);
return kset_add(k);
}
@@ -535,6 +543,8 @@ int kset_register(struct kset * k)
void kset_unregister(struct kset * k)
{
+ if (!k)
+ return;
kobject_unregister(&k->kobj);
}
@@ -586,6 +596,9 @@ int subsystem_register(struct subsystem * s)
{
int error;
+ if (!s)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
subsystem_init(s);
pr_debug("subsystem %s: registering\n",s->kset.kobj.name);
@@ -598,6 +611,8 @@ int subsystem_register(struct subsystem * s)
void subsystem_unregister(struct subsystem * s)
{
+ if (!s)
+ return;
pr_debug("subsystem %s: unregistering\n",s->kset.kobj.name);
kset_unregister(&s->kset);
}
@@ -612,6 +627,10 @@ void subsystem_unregister(struct subsystem * s)
int subsys_create_file(struct subsystem * s, struct subsys_attribute * a)
{
int error = 0;
+
+ if (!s || !a)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
if (subsys_get(s)) {
error = sysfs_create_file(&s->kset.kobj,&a->attr);
subsys_put(s);