The original code use BUG_ON() to validate the parameters when locking or unlocking one hardware lock, but we should not crash the whole kernel though the hwlock parameters are incorrect, instead we can return the error number for users and give some warning. Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c b/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c index 8862445..a22e252c 100644 --- a/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c +++ b/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c @@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ int __hwspin_trylock(struct hwspinlock *hwlock, int mode, unsigned long *flags) { int ret; - BUG_ON(!hwlock); - BUG_ON(!flags && mode == HWLOCK_IRQSTATE); + if (WARN_ON(!hwlock || (!flags && mode == HWLOCK_IRQSTATE))) + return -EINVAL; /* * This spin_lock{_irq, _irqsave} serves three purposes: @@ -264,8 +264,8 @@ int __hwspin_lock_timeout(struct hwspinlock *hwlock, unsigned int to, */ void __hwspin_unlock(struct hwspinlock *hwlock, int mode, unsigned long *flags) { - BUG_ON(!hwlock); - BUG_ON(!flags && mode == HWLOCK_IRQSTATE); + if (WARN_ON(!hwlock || (!flags && mode == HWLOCK_IRQSTATE))) + return; /* * We must make sure that memory operations (both reads and writes), -- 1.7.9.5