Re: [PATCH 1/11] kernel/kfifo.c: trivial: use BUG_ON

From: Andrea Righi
Date: Tue Aug 02 2011 - 07:41:36 EST


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.

Also consider that in __kfifo_dma_in_prepare(), the equivalent of
__kfifo_dma_in_prepare_r() when recsize is 0, we don't check nents at
all.

-Andrea

> ---
> kernel/kfifo.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff -u -p a/kernel/kfifo.c b/kernel/kfifo.c
> --- a/kernel/kfifo.c
> +++ b/kernel/kfifo.c
> @@ -562,8 +562,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kfifo_to_user_r);
> unsigned int __kfifo_dma_in_prepare_r(struct __kfifo *fifo,
> struct scatterlist *sgl, int nents, unsigned int len, size_t recsize)
> {
> - if (!nents)
> - BUG();
> + BUG_ON(!nents);
>
> len = __kfifo_max_r(len, recsize);
>
> @@ -586,8 +585,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kfifo_dma_in_finish_r);
> unsigned int __kfifo_dma_out_prepare_r(struct __kfifo *fifo,
> struct scatterlist *sgl, int nents, unsigned int len, size_t recsize)
> {
> - if (!nents)
> - BUG();
> + BUG_ON(!nents);
>
> len = __kfifo_max_r(len, recsize);
>
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