netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 6/6] devlink: add missing NULL checks for devlink ops

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Date:   Mon, 25 Feb 2019 10:32:49 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, mkubecek@...e.cz, andrew@...n.ch,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 6/6] devlink: add missing NULL checks for
 devlink ops

On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 12:03:19 +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 11:07:57PM CET, jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com wrote:
>> Commit 76726ccb7f46 ("devlink: add flash update command") and
>> commit 2d8dc5bbf4e7 ("devlink: Add support for reload")
>> access devlink ops without NULL-checking. Add the missing checks.
>> Note that all drivers currently implementing devlink pass non-NULL
>> ops, so this is not a problem.  
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to rather put WARN_ON&fail when driver calls
> devlink_alloc() with NULL ops and avoid these checks in the whole code?

Sounds good! Should I remove the existing ones?