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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kobject.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index dcade0543bd2..744401571ed7 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; } |