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Date:   Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:25:08 +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 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.

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