From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@intel.com>,
tiwai@suse.de, ranjani.sridharan@intel.com,
pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com,
Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@linux.intel.com>,
Fred Oh <fred.oh@linux.intel.com>,
broonie@kernel.org, parav@nvidia.com,
Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman@intel.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@intel.com>,
Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Add ancillary bus support
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 14:15:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201001121541.GB2375307@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201001120212.GZ816047@nvidia.com>
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 09:02:12AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 01:54:02PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 08:46:08AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 01:01:20PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 03:50:46PM -0700, Dave Ertman wrote:
> > > > > +int ancillary_device_initialize(struct ancillary_device *ancildev)
> > > > > +{
> > > > > + struct device *dev = &ancildev->dev;
> > > > > +
> > > > > + dev->bus = &ancillary_bus_type;
> > > > > +
> > > > > + if (WARN_ON(!dev->parent) || WARN_ON(!ancildev->name) ||
> > > > > + WARN_ON(!(dev->type && dev->type->release) && !dev->release))
> > > > > + return -EINVAL;
> > > >
> > > > You have a lot of WARN_ON() calls in this patch. That blows up anyone
> > > > who runs with panic-on-warn, right?
> > >
> > > AFAIK this is the standard pattern to code a "can't happen"
> > > assertion. Linus has been clear not to use BUG_ON, but to try and
> > > recover. The WARN_ON directly points to the faulty driver so it can be
> > > fixed.
> >
> > Printing an error and returning an error value also does the same exact
> > thing, the developer will not have a working system.
> >
> > Please don't abuse WARN_ON() for things that should just be normal error
> > checking logic of api calls.
>
> This is not normal error checking, it is precondition
> assertion. Something has gone badly wrong if it ever triggers.
>
> If you don't want to use WARN_ON for assertions then when should it be
> used?
>
> pr_err is not the same thing, it doesn't trigger reports from fuzzers.
fuzzers shouldn't be messing with device registration functions :)
just do a normal pr_err() and all is fine, again, this is like any other
in-kernel api that is trying to check for valid values being passed to
it.
thanks,
grteg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-01 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-30 22:50 [PATCH 0/6] Ancillary bus implementation and SOF multi-client support Dave Ertman
2020-09-30 22:50 ` [PATCH 1/6] Add ancillary bus support Dave Ertman
2020-09-30 23:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 11:01 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 11:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 11:54 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 12:02 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 12:15 ` Greg KH [this message]
2020-10-01 18:26 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 11:02 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 16:30 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 11:05 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 11:58 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 12:14 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 14:33 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 14:38 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 16:06 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2020-10-01 17:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 14:39 ` Parav Pandit
2020-10-01 14:43 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 13:27 ` Mark Brown
2020-09-30 22:50 ` [PATCH 2/6] ASoC: SOF: Introduce descriptors for SOF client Dave Ertman
2020-10-01 13:02 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 15:59 ` Sridharan, Ranjani
2020-10-01 22:16 ` Sridharan, Ranjani
2020-10-02 4:53 ` gregkh
2020-10-02 17:07 ` Sridharan, Ranjani
2020-10-03 9:02 ` gregkh
2020-10-05 2:35 ` Sridharan, Ranjani
2020-10-05 11:27 ` gregkh
2020-10-05 15:18 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2020-10-05 15:32 ` gregkh
2020-10-01 13:38 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 16:48 ` Sridharan, Ranjani
2020-09-30 22:50 ` [PATCH 3/6] ASoC: SOF: Create client driver for IPC test Dave Ertman
2020-10-01 13:04 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 16:46 ` Sridharan, Ranjani
2020-10-01 13:09 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 13:55 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2020-10-01 16:48 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 13:59 ` Mark Brown
2020-09-30 22:50 ` [PATCH 4/6] ASoC: SOF: ops: Add ops for client registration Dave Ertman
2020-09-30 22:50 ` [PATCH 5/6] ASoC: SOF: Intel: Define " Dave Ertman
2020-09-30 22:50 ` [PATCH 6/6] ASoC: SOF: debug: Remove IPC flood test support in SOF core Dave Ertman
2020-10-01 5:58 ` [PATCH 0/6] Ancillary bus implementation and SOF multi-client support Greg KH
2020-10-01 15:54 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 7:14 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 15:55 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 16:10 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 17:13 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-02 20:23 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-03 9:08 ` Greg KH
2020-10-03 9:09 ` Greg KH
2020-10-04 2:26 ` Parav Pandit
2020-10-04 23:45 ` Williams, Dan J
2020-10-05 1:18 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-05 2:39 ` Parav Pandit
2020-10-05 11:25 ` gregkh
2020-10-06 22:40 ` Dan Williams
2020-10-07 9:14 ` gregkh
2020-10-07 16:19 ` Dan Williams
2020-10-07 16:22 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-07 16:41 ` Dan Williams
2020-10-07 16:42 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2020-10-07 16:56 ` Parav Pandit
2020-10-01 10:05 ` Rojewski, Cezary
2020-10-01 10:59 ` gregkh
2020-10-01 12:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 12:55 ` gregkh
2020-10-01 13:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 14:17 ` gregkh
2020-10-01 15:08 ` Parav Pandit
2020-10-01 12:50 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 13:12 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 13:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 14:40 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 15:32 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 16:03 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 18:16 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 18:29 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 19:38 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 19:54 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 20:17 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-02 0:47 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-02 11:19 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-02 17:23 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-02 17:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-02 17:44 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 14:07 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2020-10-01 15:24 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 16:20 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2020-10-01 16:51 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 18:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 18:13 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 19:23 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 16:50 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 17:10 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 17:16 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 17:52 ` Ertman, David M
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