linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] futex: Robustify wake

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Message-ID: <1424309300.18191.2.camel@stgolabs.net>
Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:28:20 -0800
From:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, dvhart@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] futex: Robustify wake_futex()

On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 18:07 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> while the WARN() already told the user that the kernel is 
> broken.
> 
> So what's the point? Does it avoid any real badness, state 
> corruption, crash, hang, etc.?

Right, I mentioned the warn (redundant pi checks) being completely
redundant - thus this is not a real issue... feel free to toss, this was
just a wtf when reading the code ;)

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