From: Dong Hao <haod...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

The patch restores the old name while we fail to set the new
name for the kobject.

Signed-off-by: Dong Hao <haod...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 lib/kobject.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index ef3d807..9d396c5 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -222,8 +222,10 @@ int kobject_set_name_vargs(struct kobject *kobj, const 
char *fmt,
                return 0;
 
        kobj->name = kvasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, fmt, vargs);
-       if (!kobj->name)
+       if (!kobj->name){
+               kobj->name = old_name;
                return -ENOMEM;
+       }
 
        /* ewww... some of these buggers have '/' in the name ... */
        while ((s = strchr(kobj->name, '/')))
-- 
1.7.2.5

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