It's a bit overkill to use BUG when failing to add an entry to the stats_vq in init_vqs. So remove it and just return the error to the caller to bail out nicely. Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c index 6b237e3..9356a1a 100644 --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c @@ -455,9 +455,13 @@ static int init_vqs(struct virtio_balloon *vb) num_stats = update_balloon_stats(vb); sg_init_one(&sg, vb->stats, sizeof(vb->stats[0]) * num_stats); - if (virtqueue_add_outbuf(vb->stats_vq, &sg, 1, vb, GFP_KERNEL) - < 0) - BUG(); + err = virtqueue_add_outbuf(vb->stats_vq, &sg, 1, vb, + GFP_KERNEL); + if (err) { + dev_warn(&vb->vdev->dev, "%s: add stat_vq failed\n", + __func__); + return err; + } virtqueue_kick(vb->stats_vq); } return 0; -- 2.7.4