1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
index c5fbe198fbdb..765bcf0df3bb 100644
--- a/drivers/base/platform.c
+++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
@@ -1254,6 +1254,26 @@ static int __init early_platform_driver_probe_id(char *class_str,
                 }
 
                 if (match) {
+                        /*
+                         * Set up a sensible init_name to enable
+                         * dev_name() and others to be used before the
+                         * rest of the driver core is initialized.
+                         */
+                        if (!match->dev.init_name && slab_is_available()) {
+                                if (match->id != -1)
+                                        match->dev.init_name =
+                                                kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s.%d",
+                                                          match->name,
+                                                          match->id);
+                                else
+                                        match->dev.init_name =
+                                                kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s",
+                                                          match->name);
+
+                                if (!match->dev.init_name)
+                                        return -ENOMEM;
+                        }
+
                         if (epdrv->pdrv->probe(match))
                                 pr_warning("%s: unable to probe %s early.\n",
                                            class_str, match->name);