linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] dyndbg: dont panic over bad input

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Date:   Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:29:29 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@...il.com>, jbaron@...mai.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] dyndbg: dont panic over bad input

On Mon, 2020-09-21 at 13:04 -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
> This BUG_ON, from 2009, caught the impossible case of a word-char both
> starting and ending a string (loosely speaking).  A bad (reverted)
> patch finally hit this case, but even "impossibly bad input" is no
> reason to panic the kernel.  Instead pr_err and return -EINVAL.
[]
> diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
[]
> @@ -259,7 +259,10 @@ static int ddebug_tokenize(char *buf, char *words[], int maxwords)
>  		} else {
>  			for (end = buf; *end && !isspace(*end); end++)
>  				;
> -			BUG_ON(end == buf);
> +			if (end == buf) {
> +				pr_err("expected non-empty bareword");

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What is a non-empty bareword?