linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/6] virtio_net: don't crash if virtqueue is broken.

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Date:	Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:06:06 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Heinz Graalfs <graalfs@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] virtio_net: don't crash if virtqueue is broken.

A bad implementation of virtio might cause us to mark the virtqueue
broken: we'll dev_err() in that case, and the device is useless, but
let's not BUG_ON().

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 5d776447d9c3..0949688ae540 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -904,8 +904,7 @@ static bool virtnet_send_command(struct virtnet_info *vi, u8 class, u8 cmd,
 	sgs[out_num + in_num++] = &stat;
 
 	BUG_ON(out_num + in_num > ARRAY_SIZE(sgs));
-	BUG_ON(virtqueue_add_sgs(vi->cvq, sgs, out_num, in_num, vi, GFP_ATOMIC)
-	       < 0);
+	virtqueue_add_sgs(vi->cvq, sgs, out_num, in_num, vi, GFP_ATOMIC);
 
 	if (unlikely(!virtqueue_kick(vi->cvq)))
 		return status == VIRTIO_NET_OK;
-- 
1.8.3.2

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