linux-kernel - [for-linus][PATCH 3/3] ring-buffer: Remove all BUG() calls

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Date:   Thu, 14 May 2020 08:58:20 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [for-linus][PATCH 3/3] ring-buffer: Remove all BUG() calls

From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>

There's a lot of checks to make sure the ring buffer is working, and if an
anomaly is detected, it safely shuts itself down. But there's a few cases
that it will call BUG(), which defeats the point of being safe (it crashes
the kernel when an anomaly is found!). There's no reason for them. Switch
them all to either WARN_ON_ONCE() (when no ring buffer descriptor is present),
or to RB_WARN_ON() (when a ring buffer descriptor is present).

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 448d5f528764..b8e1ca48be50 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ rb_event_length(struct ring_buffer_event *event)
 	case RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA:
 		return rb_event_data_length(event);
 	default:
-		BUG();
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
 	}
 	/* not hit */
 	return 0;
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ rb_event_data(struct ring_buffer_event *event)
 {
 	if (extended_time(event))
 		event = skip_time_extend(event);
-	BUG_ON(event->type_len > RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA_TYPE_LEN_MAX);
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(event->type_len > RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA_TYPE_LEN_MAX);
 	/* If length is in len field, then array[0] has the data */
 	if (event->type_len)
 		return (void *)&event->array[0];
@@ -3727,7 +3727,7 @@ rb_update_read_stamp(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
 		return;
 
 	default:
-		BUG();
+		RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, 1);
 	}
 	return;
 }
@@ -3757,7 +3757,7 @@ rb_update_iter_read_stamp(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter,
 		return;
 
 	default:
-		BUG();
+		RB_WARN_ON(iter->cpu_buffer, 1);
 	}
 	return;
 }
@@ -4020,7 +4020,7 @@ rb_buffer_peek(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer, u64 *ts,
 		return event;
 
 	default:
-		BUG();
+		RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, 1);
 	}
 
 	return NULL;
@@ -4109,7 +4109,7 @@ rb_iter_peek(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter, u64 *ts)
 		return event;
 
 	default:
-		BUG();
+		RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, 1);
 	}
 
 	return NULL;
-- 
2.26.2