linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] lib/kobject: Panic when kobj or ktype is not properly assigned

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Date:	Tue, 19 Mar 2013 06:29:36 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Dong Hao <haodong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, shangw@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	weiyang@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] lib/kobject: Panic when kobj or ktype is not
 properly assigned

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 02:47:00PM +0800, Dong Hao wrote:
> From: Dong Hao <haodong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> kobj and ktype are two important attributes which will be used after kobject_init(),
> and (!kobj)|(!ktype) may cause FS corruption which could not be recovered.
> Panic instead of dump_stack() when neither kobj nor ktype is properly assigned to
> detect the bug early.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dong Hao <haodong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  lib/kobject.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
> index 279a172..ff9b3c3 100644
> --- a/lib/kobject.c
> +++ b/lib/kobject.c
> @@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ void kobject_init(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_type *ktype)
>  
>  error:
>  	printk(KERN_ERR "kobject (%p): %s\n", kobj, err_str);
> -	dump_stack();
> +	BUG_ON(1);

You just crashed the machine.  That's horrible, and unacceptable.

*plonk*
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