+ mm-vmalloc-replace-bug_on-by-warn_on_once.patch added to mm-unstable branch

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The patch titled
     Subject: mm: vmalloc: replace BUG_ON() by WARN_ON_ONCE()
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     mm-vmalloc-replace-bug_on-by-warn_on_once.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-vmalloc-replace-bug_on-by-warn_on_once.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: vmalloc: replace BUG_ON() by WARN_ON_ONCE()
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 20:00:22 +0100

Currently a vm_unmap_ram() functions triggers a BUG() if an area is not
found.  Replace it by the WARN_ON_ONCE() error message and keep machine
alive instead of stopping it.

The worst case is a memory leaking.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221222190022.134380-3-urezki@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---


--- a/mm/vmalloc.c~mm-vmalloc-replace-bug_on-by-warn_on_once
+++ a/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2253,7 +2253,9 @@ void vm_unmap_ram(const void *mem, unsig
 	}
 
 	va = find_unlink_vmap_area(addr);
-	BUG_ON(!va);
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!va))
+		return;
+
 	debug_check_no_locks_freed((void *)va->va_start,
 				    (va->va_end - va->va_start));
 	free_unmap_vmap_area(va);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from urezki@xxxxxxxxx are

mm-vmalloc-avoid-calling-__find_vmap_area-twice-in-__vunmap.patch
mm-vmalloc-switch-to-find_unlink_vmap_area-in-vm_unmap_ram.patch
mm-vmalloc-replace-bug_on-by-warn_on_once.patch




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