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Message-Id: <20120904161855.f34e365e.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 16:18:55 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi.linux@...il.com>
Cc: ebiederm@...ssion.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Use BUG_ON instead of BUG
On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 09:00:25 +0530
Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi.linux@...il.com> wrote:
> The use of if (!head) BUG(); can be replaced with single line
> BUG_ON(!head).
>
> Signed-off-by: Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi.linux@...il.com>
> ---
> fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 3 +--
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
> index dfafeb2..63bdfa0 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
> @@ -266,8 +266,7 @@ void sysctl_head_put(struct ctl_table_header *head)
>
> static struct ctl_table_header *sysctl_head_grab(struct ctl_table_header *head)
> {
> - if (!head)
> - BUG();
> + BUG_ON(!head);
> spin_lock(&sysctl_lock);
> if (!use_table(head))
> head = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
We could just remove the check altogether. The resulting NULL pointer
deref oops in use_table() will give us the same info as that BUG().
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