From 282029c005e65ffdce3aa9f8220f88a8bbbc4dae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Williams Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 13:41:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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: [] kobject_add_internal+0x1c1/0x1f3 [] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf [] kobject_add_varg+0x41/0x50 [] kobject_add+0x64/0x66 [] device_add+0x12d/0x63a [] ? kobject_put+0x4c/0x50 [] scsi_sysfs_add_sdev+0x4e/0x28a [] do_scan_async+0x9c/0x145 Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: James Bottomley Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- lib/kobject.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index 21dee7c19afd..aeefa8bc8b1c 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -192,14 +192,14 @@ static int kobject_add_internal(struct kobject *kobj) /* be noisy on error issues */ if (error == -EEXIST) - printk(KERN_ERR "%s failed for %s with " - "-EEXIST, don't try to register things with " - "the same name in the same directory.\n", - __func__, kobject_name(kobj)); + WARN(1, "%s failed for %s with " + "-EEXIST, don't try to register things with " + "the same name in the same directory.\n", + __func__, kobject_name(kobj)); else - printk(KERN_ERR "%s failed for %s (%d)\n", - __func__, kobject_name(kobj), error); - dump_stack(); + WARN(1, "%s failed for %s (error: %d parent: %s)\n", + __func__, kobject_name(kobj), error, + parent ? kobject_name(parent) : "'none'"); } else kobj->state_in_sysfs = 1;