linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] idr: explain WARN_ON_ONCE() on negative IDs out-of-range ID

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Date:	Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:10:48 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] idr: explain WARN_ON_ONCE() on negative IDs out-of-range
 ID

On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, Tejun Heo wrote:

> Until recently, when an negative ID is specified, idr functions used
> to ignore the sign bit and proceeded with the operation with the rest
> of bits, which is bizarre and error-prone.  The behavior recently got
> changed so that negative IDs are treated as invalid but we're
> triggering WARN_ON_ONCE() on negative IDs just in case somebody was
> depending on the sign bit being ignored, so that those can be detected
> and fixed easily.
> 
> We only need this for a while.  Explain why WARN_ON_ONCE()s are there
> and that they can be removed later.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

Acked-by : Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
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