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Message-ID: <20240605112055.7f057e46@endymion.delvare>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 11:20:55 +0200
From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
To: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>
Cc: linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org, Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il>,
linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Peter Rosin
<peda@...ntia.se>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: smbus: fix NULL function pointer dereference
Hi Wolfram,
On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 22:08:41 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > > gracefully because kicking off I2C transfers is not a hot path. Maybe we
> > > could turn the dev_dbg into something louder to make people aware that
> > > there is a bug?
> >
> > My previous message initially had a suggestion in that direction ;-)
> > but I first wanted your opinion on the check itself. dev_dbg() is
> > definitely not appropriate for a condition which should never happen
> > and implies there's a bug somewhere else. A WARN_ON_ONCE would probably
> > be better, so that the bug gets spotted and fixed quickly.
>
> So, are you okay with keeping the check where it is now and turning the
> dev_dbg into WARN_ON_ONCE? I am.
Yes I am.
Thanks,
--
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
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