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Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kobject.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index ae6bb900bfb6..0487d1f64806 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -397,6 +397,7 @@ int kobject_rename(struct kobject *kobj, const char *new_name) { int error = 0; const char *devpath = NULL; + const char *dup_name = NULL, *name; char *devpath_string = NULL; char *envp[2]; @@ -420,15 +421,27 @@ int kobject_rename(struct kobject *kobj, const char *new_name) envp[0] = devpath_string; envp[1] = NULL; + name = dup_name = kstrdup(new_name, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!name) { + error = -ENOMEM; + goto out; + } + error = sysfs_rename_dir(kobj, new_name); + if (error) + goto out; + + /* Install the new kobject name */ + dup_name = kobj->name; + kobj->name = name; /* This function is mostly/only used for network interface. * Some hotplug package track interfaces by their name and * therefore want to know when the name is changed by the user. */ - if (!error) - kobject_uevent_env(kobj, KOBJ_MOVE, envp); + kobject_uevent_env(kobj, KOBJ_MOVE, envp); out: + kfree(dup_name); kfree(devpath_string); kfree(devpath); kobject_put(kobj); |