Re: [PATCH 1/6] lib/rhashtable: convert param sanitations to WARN_ON

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On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 06:12:09AM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>
> Well, I don't really _want_ them; nor does the ipc code which already
> does a WARN_ON() (but that goes away in future patches). What I want
> is to get rid of the return path. So I don't really care if we convert
> them to WARN or remove them altogether. Would you be happy with the
> later?

It has nothing to do with the error return path.  Assuming you
remove the allocation failure path, then this error path can never
trigger for *your* use-case.  IOW you can either just ignore the
return value for ipc or just do the WARN_ON in your code.

Cheers,
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