linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/6] staging/android: do not let userspace trigger WARN

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Date:	Mon,  8 Aug 2016 18:24:18 -0300
From:	Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@...ovan.org>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	Daniel Stone <daniels@...labora.com>,
	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
	Riley Andrews <riandrews@...roid.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>,
	Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>,
	John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@...el.com>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
	Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
	Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@...labora.co.uk>, pavel@....cz
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/6] staging/android: do not let userspace trigger WARN_ON

From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@...labora.co.uk>

Closing the timeline without waiting all fences to signal is not
a critical failure, it is just bad usage from userspace so avoid
calling WARN_ON in this case.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@...labora.co.uk>
---
 drivers/staging/android/sw_sync.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/sw_sync.c b/drivers/staging/android/sw_sync.c
index b4ae092..ad0bb1a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/sw_sync.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/sw_sync.c
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static void timeline_fence_release(struct fence *fence)
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(fence->lock, flags);
 	list_del(&pt->child_list);
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&pt->active_list)))
+	if (!list_empty(&pt->active_list))
 		list_del(&pt->active_list);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(fence->lock, flags);
 
-- 
2.5.5