linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] lib/rhashtable: convert param sanitations to WARN

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Date:   Fri, 1 Jun 2018 09:53:47 -0700
From:   Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        tgraf@...g.ch, manfred@...orfullife.com, mhocko@...nel.org,
        guillaume.knispel@...ersonicimagine.com, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] lib/rhashtable: convert param sanitations to WARN_ON

On Sat, 02 Jun 2018, Herbert Xu wrote:

>On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 09:01:21AM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>> For the purpose of making rhashtable_init() unable to fail,
>> we can replace the returning -EINVAL with WARN_ONs whenever
>> the caller passes bogus parameters during initialization.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>
>> ---
>>  lib/rhashtable.c | 9 ++++-----
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/lib/rhashtable.c b/lib/rhashtable.c
>> index 9427b5766134..05a4b1b8b8ce 100644
>> --- a/lib/rhashtable.c
>> +++ b/lib/rhashtable.c
>> @@ -1024,12 +1024,11 @@ int rhashtable_init(struct rhashtable *ht,
>>
>>  	size = HASH_DEFAULT_SIZE;
>>
>> -	if ((!params->key_len && !params->obj_hashfn) ||
>> -	    (params->obj_hashfn && !params->obj_cmpfn))
>> -		return -EINVAL;
>> +	WARN_ON((!params->key_len && !params->obj_hashfn) ||
>> +		(params->obj_hashfn && !params->obj_cmpfn));
>>
>> -	if (params->nulls_base && params->nulls_base < (1U << RHT_BASE_SHIFT))
>> -		return -EINVAL;
>> +	WARN_ON(params->nulls_base &&
>> +		params->nulls_base < (1U << RHT_BASE_SHIFT));
>
>I still don't like this.
>
>Yes for your use-case you will never crash and a WARN_ON is fine.
>However, rhashtable is used in all sorts of contexts and returning
>an error makes sense for quite a number of them.

Curious, are these users setting up the param structure dynamically
or something that they can pass along bogus values?

If that's the case then yes, I definitely agree.