netdev - [PATCH net 1/2] mlxsw: spectrum_router: Remove inappropriate usage of WARN

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Date:   Fri, 10 Jul 2020 16:41:38 +0300
From:   Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, jiri@...lanox.com,
        mlxsw@...lanox.com, Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 1/2] mlxsw: spectrum_router: Remove inappropriate usage of WARN_ON()

From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>

We should not trigger a warning when a memory allocation fails. Remove
the WARN_ON().

The warning is constantly triggered by syzkaller when it is injecting
faults:

[ 2230.758664] FAULT_INJECTION: forcing a failure.
[ 2230.758664] name failslab, interval 1, probability 0, space 0, times 0
[ 2230.762329] CPU: 3 PID: 1407 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 5.8.0-rc2+ #28
...
[ 2230.898175] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1407 at drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c:6265 mlxsw_sp_router_fib_event+0xfad/0x13e0
[ 2230.898179] Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...
[ 2230.898183] CPU: 3 PID: 1407 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 5.8.0-rc2+ #28
[ 2230.898190] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58e9a3f-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014

Fixes: 3057224e014c ("mlxsw: spectrum_router: Implement FIB offload in deferred work")
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c
index 770de0222e7b..019ed503aadf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c
@@ -6262,7 +6262,7 @@ static int mlxsw_sp_router_fib_event(struct notifier_block *nb,
 	}
 
 	fib_work = kzalloc(sizeof(*fib_work), GFP_ATOMIC);
-	if (WARN_ON(!fib_work))
+	if (!fib_work)
 		return NOTIFY_BAD;
 
 	fib_work->mlxsw_sp = router->mlxsw_sp;
-- 
2.26.2