linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 07/17] dax: remove the last BUG

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Message-Id: <1475874544-24842-8-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Fri,  7 Oct 2016 15:08:54 -0600
From:   Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v5 07/17] dax: remove the last BUG_ON() from fs/dax.c

Don't take down the kernel if we get an invalid 'from' and 'length'
argument pair.  Just warn once and return an error.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
---
 fs/dax.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index ac28cdf..98189ac 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -1194,7 +1194,8 @@ int dax_zero_page_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t from, unsigned length,
 	/* Block boundary? Nothing to do */
 	if (!length)
 		return 0;
-	BUG_ON((offset + length) > PAGE_SIZE);
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE((offset + length) > PAGE_SIZE))
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	memset(&bh, 0, sizeof(bh));
 	bh.b_bdev = inode->i_sb->s_bdev;
-- 
2.7.4