kobject: don't use WARN for registration failures

This WARNING proved to be noisy. The function still returns an error
and callers should handle it. That's how most of kernel code works.
Downgrade the WARNING to pr_err() and leave WARNINGs for kernel bugs.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+209c0f67f99fec8eb14b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+7fb6d9525a4528104e05@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+2e63711063e2d8f9ea27@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+de73361ee4971b6e6f75@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index e1d1f290bf35..18989b5b3b56 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -233,13 +233,12 @@ static int kobject_add_internal(struct kobject *kobj)
 
                 /* be noisy on error issues */
                 if (error == -EEXIST)
-                        WARN(1,
-                             "%s failed for %s with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.\n",
-                             __func__, kobject_name(kobj));
+                        pr_err("%s failed for %s with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.\n",
+                               __func__, kobject_name(kobj));
                 else
-                        WARN(1, "%s failed for %s (error: %d parent: %s)\n",
-                             __func__, kobject_name(kobj), error,
-                             parent ? kobject_name(parent) : "'none'");
+                        pr_err("%s failed for %s (error: %d parent: %s)\n",
+                               __func__, kobject_name(kobj), error,
+                               parent ? kobject_name(parent) : "'none'");
         } else
                 kobj->state_in_sysfs = 1;