Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Kevin Hilman <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] omap: Ptr "isr_reg" tracked as NULL was dereferenced | | Date | Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:01:12 -0700 |
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Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> writes:
> Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 03:42:10AM -0500, Evgeny Kuznetsov wrote: >>+ if (!isr_reg) { >>+ printk(KERN_ERR "FATAL: Incorrect GPIO method %i\n", >>+ bank->method); >>+ BUG(); >>+ } > > this could be simply: > > BUG_ON(!isr_reg);
WARN_ON is better.
A BUG() will panic the kernel and stop everything. This is not an error condition that should prevent the entire kernel from running.
From asm-generic/bug.h:
/* * Don't use BUG() or BUG_ON() unless there's really no way out; one * example might be detecting data structure corruption in the middle * of an operation that can't be backed out of. If the (sub)system * can somehow continue operating, perhaps with reduced functionality, * it's probably not BUG-worthy. * * If you're tempted to BUG(), think again: is completely giving up * really the *only* solution? There are usually better options, where * users don't need to reboot ASAP and can mostly shut down cleanly. */
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