linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kref: Avoid null pointer dereference after WARN

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Date:   Wed, 5 Jul 2017 17:37:25 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
        Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kref: Avoid null pointer dereference after WARN

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 09:06:26AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> I remember one complaint was that WARN_ON was "huge" and this bloated
> the kernel code a lot.  But then that got fixed up.  Is BUG_ON going to
> cause the same complaint again?

BUG_ON and WARN_ON should be of equal (small) size.