On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 01:52:49PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > 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@xxxxxxx> > > > > > > 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@xxxxxxx> > > > > > > > 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 Right. But I'd prefer to return nothing also when asking nothing rather than crashing the kernel. -Andrea -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
