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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-25 13:08:16 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-25 13:08:16 +0200
commit10a010f6953b5a14ba2f0be40a4fce1bea220875 (patch)
tree19aadf718c796bc7fae0a1a1c970d84d67c541d4 /lib/kobject.c
parent510b37258dfd61693ca6c039865c78bd996e3718 (diff)
parentfb2e405fc1fc8b20d9c78eaa1c7fd5a297efde43 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/x2apic
Conflicts: drivers/pci/dmar.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kobject.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/kobject.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index dcade0543bd..744401571ed 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -216,13 +216,19 @@ static int kobject_add_internal(struct kobject *kobj)
static int kobject_set_name_vargs(struct kobject *kobj, const char *fmt,
va_list vargs)
{
- /* Free the old name, if necessary. */
- kfree(kobj->name);
+ const char *old_name = kobj->name;
+ char *s;
kobj->name = kvasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, fmt, vargs);
if (!kobj->name)
return -ENOMEM;
+ /* ewww... some of these buggers have '/' in the name ... */
+ s = strchr(kobj->name, '/');
+ if (s)
+ s[0] = '!';
+
+ kfree(old_name);
return 0;
}