From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 11:48:37 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] kernel-audit: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "audit_log_e Message-Id: <54688F15.9070703@users.sourceforge.net> List-Id: References: <530CD2C4.4050903@users.sourceforge.net> <530CF8FF.8080600@users.sourceforge.net> <530DD06F.4090703@users.sourceforge.net> <5317A59D.4@users.sourceforge.net> <54687F1A.1010809@users.sourceforge.net> <20141116111023.GA4905@mwanda> <20141116111446.GA4956@mwanda> In-Reply-To: <20141116111446.GA4956@mwanda> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr > An example of a bug introduced is here: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/3/505 It seems that we try to clarify a different interpretation of "bugs", don't we? It is an usual software development challenge to decide on the best source code places where to put input parameter validation (and when it can be omitted), isn't it? Regards, Markus