netdev - [PATCH v2] ipv6: esp6: use BUG_ON instead of if condition followed by BUG

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Message-ID: <20171026125106.GA13009@embeddedor.com>
Date:   Thu, 26 Oct 2017 07:51:06 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
To:     Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] ipv6: esp6: use BUG_ON instead of if condition followed
 by BUG

Use BUG_ON instead of if condition followed by BUG in esp_remove_trailer.

This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
---
Changes in v2:
 Update the code as suggested by Herbert Xu:

 ret = foo();
 BUG_ON(ret);

 net/ipv6/esp6.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/esp6.c b/net/ipv6/esp6.c
index 89910e2..da1f6a6 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/esp6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/esp6.c
@@ -483,8 +483,8 @@ static inline int esp_remove_trailer(struct sk_buff *skb)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	if (skb_copy_bits(skb, skb->len - alen - 2, nexthdr, 2))
-		BUG();
+	ret = skb_copy_bits(skb, skb->len - alen - 2, nexthdr, 2);
+	BUG_ON(ret);
 
 	ret = -EINVAL;
 	padlen = nexthdr[0];
-- 
2.7.4