[PATCH 21/62] Driver-Core: require valid action string in uevent trigger

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Mar 02 2010 - 18:53:27 EST


From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>

No longer fall back to "add" and warn, but always require a valid
action-string written to the "uevent" file.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/core.c | 11 +++--------
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 2820257..e1d6cb4 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -306,15 +306,10 @@ static ssize_t store_uevent(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
{
enum kobject_action action;

- if (kobject_action_type(buf, count, &action) == 0) {
+ if (kobject_action_type(buf, count, &action) == 0)
kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, action);
- goto out;
- }
-
- dev_err(dev, "uevent: unsupported action-string; this will "
- "be ignored in a future kernel version\n");
- kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
-out:
+ else
+ dev_err(dev, "uevent: unknown action-string\n");
return count;
}

--
1.7.0.1

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