Re: [PATCH] autofs: Add BUG_ON(1) for non dir/link inode case

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On 7/3/16 6:29 AM, Tomohiro Kusumi wrote:
> It's invalid if the given mode is neither dir nor link,
> so don't let it fallthrough on else case.

Is this case really worth crashing the entire system?

Wouldn't a WARN_ON + return -EINVAL be sufficient?  At the very least it
means that a developer doesn't need to reboot to reload the module if
they hit this.

-Jeff

> Signed-off-by: Tomohiro Kusumi <kusumi.tomohiro@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/autofs4/inode.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/autofs4/inode.c b/fs/autofs4/inode.c
> index ad0ee93..7f35c82 100644
> --- a/fs/autofs4/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/autofs4/inode.c
> @@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ int autofs4_fill_super(struct super_block *s, void *data, int silent)
>  	if (autofs_type_trigger(sbi->type))
>  		__managed_dentry_set_managed(root);
>  
> +	BUG_ON(!root_inode->i_fop || !root_inode->i_op);
>  	root_inode->i_fop = &autofs4_root_operations;
>  	root_inode->i_op = &autofs4_dir_inode_operations;
>  
> @@ -368,7 +369,8 @@ struct inode *autofs4_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, umode_t mode)
>  		inode->i_fop = &autofs4_dir_operations;
>  	} else if (S_ISLNK(mode)) {
>  		inode->i_op = &autofs4_symlink_inode_operations;
> -	}
> +	} else
> +		BUG_ON(1);
>  
>  	return inode;
>  }
> 


-- 
Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs

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