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()") Reported-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.bt...@gmx.com> Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.kroge...@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com> --- v2: replaced ?: with plain conditional (Greg) lib/kobject.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index 3afb939f2a1c..9dce68c378e6 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -637,8 +637,12 @@ static void __kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj) */ void kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj) { - struct kobject *parent = kobj->parent; + struct kobject *parent; + + if (!kobj) + return; + parent = kobj->parent; __kobject_del(kobj); kobject_put(parent); } -- 2.27.0