netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/2] openvswitch: drop unneeded BUG_ON() in ovs_flow_cmd_build

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Date:   Thu, 28 Nov 2019 13:17:00 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     pabeni@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, pshelar@....org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] openvswitch: drop unneeded BUG_ON() in
 ovs_flow_cmd_build_info()

From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:10:29 +0100

> All callers already deal with errors correctly, dump a warn instead.
> 
> Fixes: ccb1352e76cf ("net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components.")
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
> ---
>  net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
> index d8c364d637b1..e94f675794f1 100644
> --- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
> +++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
> @@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *ovs_flow_cmd_build_info(const struct sw_flow *flow,
>  	retval = ovs_flow_cmd_fill_info(flow, dp_ifindex, skb,
>  					info->snd_portid, info->snd_seq, 0,
>  					cmd, ufid_flags);
> -	BUG_ON(retval < 0);
> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(retval < 0);
>  	return skb;
>  }

I don't think this is right.  We should propagate the error by freeing the skb
and returning a proper error pointer based upon retval.