From: Lucas Wei lucaswei@google.com

For kernel releases older than 4.20, using the SLUB alloctor will cause this alignment check to fail as that allocator did NOT align kmalloc allocations on a PAGE_SIZE boundry.

Remove the check for these older kernels as it is a false-positive and causes problems on many devices.

Signed-off-by: Lucas Wei lucaswei@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c @@ -567,8 +567,7 @@ va_list args; int len;

- if (WARN(!buf || offset_in_page(buf), - "invalid sysfs_emit: buf:%p\n", buf)) + if (WARN(!buf, "invalid sysfs_emit: buf:%p\n", buf)) return 0;

va_start(args, fmt);