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Commit 979857ea authored by Rasmus Villemoes's avatar Rasmus Villemoes Committed by Vlastimil Babka
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mm: slub: remove dead and buggy code from sysfs_slab_add()



The function sysfs_slab_add() has two callers:

One is slab_sysfs_init(), which first initializes slab_kset, and only
when that succeeds sets slab_state to FULL, and then proceeds to call
sysfs_slab_add() for all previously created slabs.

The other is __kmem_cache_create(), but only after a

	if (slab_state <= UP)
		return 0;

check.

So in other words, sysfs_slab_add() is never called without
slab_kset (aka the return value of cache_kset()) being non-NULL.

And this is just as well, because if we ever did take this path and
called kobject_init(&s->kobj), and then later when called again from
slab_sysfs_init() would end up calling kobject_init_and_add(), we
would hit

	if (kobj->state_initialized) {
		/* do not error out as sometimes we can recover */
		pr_err("kobject (%p): tried to init an initialized object, something is seriously wrong.\n",
		dump_stack();
	}

in kobject.c.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
parent 247f34f7
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