Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Aug 2011 13:52:49 +0200 (CEST) | From | Julia Lawall <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/11] kernel/kfifo.c: trivial: use BUG_ON |
| |
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Andrea Righi wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 12:34:54PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> > > > > Use BUG_ON(x) rather than if(x) BUG(); > > > > The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows: > > (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) > > > > // <smpl> > > @@ identifier x; @@ > > -if (x) BUG(); > > +BUG_ON(x); > > > > @@ identifier x; @@ > > -if (!x) BUG(); > > +BUG_ON(!x); > > // </smpl> > > > > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> > > > > The patch looks good. However, I think we should just get rid of the > BUG_ON() there. If nents is 0, setup_sgl_buf() would just returns 0 and > nothing critical will happen.
I don't know the code at all. Indeed, I'm not sure to see any uses of eg __kfifo_dma_in_prepare_r, except in demo code. But that would imply returning 0 for two different reasons: asking for nothing and being out of space.
julia
> Also consider that in __kfifo_dma_in_prepare(), the equivalent of > __kfifo_dma_in_prepare_r() when recsize is 0, we don't check nents at > all. > > -Andrea > > > --- > > kernel/kfifo.c | 6 ++---- > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > > > diff -u -p a/kernel/kfifo.c b/kernel/kfifo.c > > --- a/kernel/kfifo.c > > +++ b/kernel/kfifo.c > > @@ -562,8 +562,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kfifo_to_user_r); > > unsigned int __kfifo_dma_in_prepare_r(struct __kfifo *fifo, > > struct scatterlist *sgl, int nents, unsigned int len, size_t recsize) > > { > > - if (!nents) > > - BUG(); > > + BUG_ON(!nents); > > > > len = __kfifo_max_r(len, recsize); > > > > @@ -586,8 +585,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kfifo_dma_in_finish_r); > > unsigned int __kfifo_dma_out_prepare_r(struct __kfifo *fifo, > > struct scatterlist *sgl, int nents, unsigned int len, size_t recsize) > > { > > - if (!nents) > > - BUG(); > > + BUG_ON(!nents); > > > > len = __kfifo_max_r(len, recsize); > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >
| |