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Date:   Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:53:20 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
Cc:     Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: xfrm_user: use BUG_ON instead of if condition
 followed by BUG

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:50:43PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> 
> Quoting Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>:
> 
> >On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 01:18:57PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> >>Use BUG_ON instead of if condition followed by BUG.
> >>
> >>This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
> >
> >I think this patch is terrible.  Why on earth is Coccinelle even
> >warning about this?
> >
> >If anything we should be converting these constructs to not use
> >BUG.
> >
> 
> Yeah, and under this assumption the original code is even worse.

No your patch makes it worse.  The original construct makes it
clear that the conditional is real code and not just some debugging
aid.

With your patch, real code is now inside BUG_ON.

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
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