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-rw-r--r--lib/kobject.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 2782f49e906e..93685f43bb9b 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ int kobject_shadow_add(struct kobject * kobj, struct dentry *shadow_parent)
return -ENOENT;
if (!kobj->k_name)
kobj->k_name = kobj->name;
- if (!kobj->k_name) {
+ if (!*kobj->k_name) {
pr_debug("kobject attempted to be registered with no name!\n");
WARN_ON(1);
return -EINVAL;