Re: [PATCH] kobject: set state_initialized to 0 in kobject_cleanup

[Wu, Songjun]

On 11/1/2016 22:56, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 06:41:44PM +0800, Songjun Wu wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Yes, your code is wrong, don't try to change the kernel core to work
> around it :)
>
> That message is there for a reason, and this patch has been rejected
> many times in the past.  kobjects can NOT ever be reused, and should
> never be static (but yes, there are lots of in-kernel users with static
> kobjects, they just never get reused...)
>
> What code is emitting this message?  I'll be glad to help you fix it up
> if you can point me at it.
Thank you very much.
I will not use the static kobjects to fix the error.
:)
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h