linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] drm/vmwgfx: fix a problematic usage of WARN

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Message-ID: <56571C6A.1030606@vmware.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Nov 2015 15:51:22 +0100
From:	Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>
To:	Geliang Tang <geliangtang@....com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Sinclair Yeh <syeh@...are.com>,
	Charmaine Lee <charmainel@...are.com>
CC:	<dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] drm/vmwgfx: fix a problematic usage of WARN_ON()

Thanks for reporting!

This fix was already reported by Dan Carpenter and has already been
queued in vmwgfx-fixes-4.4

/Thomas


On 11/25/2015 02:12 PM, Geliang Tang wrote:
> WARN_ON() takes a condition rather than a format string. This patch
> converted WARN_ON() to WARN() instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@....com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fifo.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fifo.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fifo.c
> index a8baf5f..b6a0806 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fifo.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fifo.c
> @@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ void *vmw_fifo_reserve_dx(struct vmw_private *dev_priv, uint32_t bytes,
>  	else if (ctx_id == SVGA3D_INVALID_ID)
>  		ret = vmw_local_fifo_reserve(dev_priv, bytes);
>  	else {
> -		WARN_ON("Command buffer has not been allocated.\n");
> +		WARN(1, "Command buffer has not been allocated.\n");
>  		ret = NULL;
>  	}
>  	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(ret)) {

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