[PATCH] kobject: set state_initialized to 0 in kobject_cleanup

From	Songjun Wu <songjun.wu@microchip.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH] kobject: set state_initialized to 0 in kobject_cleanup
Date	2016-11-01 11:50 +0100
Message-ID	<syENH-7yd-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
Organization	linux.* mail to news gateway

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If state_initialized is not set to 0 when a kobject is
released, a device is registered, unregistered, and
registered again, the error below will occur.

kobject (dec04bb0): tried to init an initialized object,
something is seriously wrong.

Signed-off-by: Songjun Wu <songjun.wu@microchip.com>
---

 lib/kobject.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 445dcae..423af4e 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -639,6 +639,8 @@ static void kobject_cleanup(struct kobject *kobj)
 		kobject_del(kobj);
 	}
 
+	kobj->state_initialized = 0;
+
 	if (t && t->release) {
 		pr_debug("kobject: '%s' (%p): calling ktype release\n",
 			 kobject_name(kobj), kobj);
-- 
2.7.4

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[PATCH] kobject: set state_initialized to 0 in kobject_cleanup Songjun Wu <songjun.wu@microchip.com> - 2016-11-01 11:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] kobject: set state_initialized to 0 in kobject_cleanup Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-11-01 16:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] kobject: set state_initialized to 0 in kobject_cleanup "Wu, Songjun" <Songjun.Wu@microchip.com> - 2016-11-02 02:40 +0100

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