linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 04/20] EDAC, mc: Do not BUG_ON() in edac_mc

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Message-ID: <20191106093239.25517-5-rrichter@marvell.com>
Date:   Wed, 6 Nov 2019 09:33:09 +0000
From:   Robert Richter <rrichter@...vell.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
CC:     James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Robert Richter <rrichter@...vell.com>,
        "linux-edac@...r.kernel.org" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Mauro Carvalho Chehab" <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 04/20] EDAC, mc: Do not BUG_ON() in edac_mc_alloc()

No need to crash the system in case edac_mc_alloc() is called with
invalid arguments, just warn and return. This would cause a checkpatch
warning when touching the code later, so just fix it.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@...vell.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/edac/edac_mc.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c b/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
index c5240bb4c6c0..f2cbca77bc50 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
@@ -323,7 +323,9 @@ struct mem_ctl_info *edac_mc_alloc(unsigned int mc_num,
 	int i, j, row, chn, n, len;
 	bool per_rank = false;
 
-	BUG_ON(n_layers > EDAC_MAX_LAYERS || n_layers == 0);
+	if (WARN_ON(n_layers > EDAC_MAX_LAYERS || n_layers == 0))
+		return NULL;
+
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the total amount of dimms and csrows/cschannels while
 	 * in the old API emulation mode
-- 
2.20.1