On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > + if (count > rsize) { > + WARN_ON(1); > + count = rsize; > + } So if we'd actually want to merge it with the warning, I'd prefer writing it as if (WARN_ON_ONCE(count > rsize)) count = size; because it's smaller and cannot spam your logs. WARN_ON_ONCE() will only _warn_ once, but it always returns the conditional for the warning, so the above does the right thing. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in