kobject: Restore old behaviour of kobject_del(NULL)
authorAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 3 Aug 2020 08:27:06 +0000 (11:27 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 17 Sep 2020 11:55:41 +0000 (13:55 +0200)
commit47052502f04084426b3465ea1f874c8a9cc9861e
tree5f37f0b9ceb110d6e5ce811327521f52608881a0
parenta36133cc9cf243e5b89201ca3a36b9d755f60a25
kobject: Restore old behaviour of kobject_del(NULL)

commit 40b8b826a6998639dd1c26f0e127f18371e1058d upstream.

The commit 079ad2fb4bf9 ("kobject: Avoid premature parent object freeing in
kobject_cleanup()") inadvertently dropped a possibility to call kobject_del()
with NULL pointer. Restore the old behaviour.

Fixes: 079ad2fb4bf9 ("kobject: Avoid premature parent object freeing in kobject_cleanup()")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com>
Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200803082706.65347-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
lib/kobject.c