netdev - Re: [PATCH 4/9 net-next] ipv6: replace if/BUG by BUG

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Date:	Tue, 31 Mar 2015 11:17:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hideaki.yoshifuji@...aclelinux.com
Cc:	fabf@...net.be, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
	jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net,
	steffen.klassert@...unet.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	pablo@...filter.org, kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	coreteam@...filter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9 net-next] ipv6: replace if/BUG by BUG_ON

From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <hideaki.yoshifuji@...aclelinux.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:50:27 +0900

> Hi,
> 
> Fabian Frederick wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>
>> ---
>>  net/ipv6/addrconf.c                     | 3 +--
>>  net/ipv6/esp6.c                         | 3 +--
>>  net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c | 3 +--
>>  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
>> index 2660263..e205918 100644
>> --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
>> +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
>> @@ -4805,8 +4805,7 @@ static int inet6_set_link_af(struct net_device *dev, const struct nlattr *nla)
>>  	if (!idev)
>>  		return -EAFNOSUPPORT;
>>  
>> -	if (nla_parse_nested(tb, IFLA_INET6_MAX, nla, NULL) < 0)
>> -		BUG();
>> +	BUG_ON(nla_parse_nested(tb, IFLA_INET6_MAX, nla, NULL) < 0);
>>  
> 
> NACK, I do not prefer using BUG_ON() with side effects.

Agreed, I do not like these changes at all and will not be
applying them.
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