Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] staging: r8188eu: add error handling of rtw_read32

[Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>]

On 8/26/21 1:22 PM, David Laight wrote:
> From: Pavel Skripkin
>> Sent: 26 August 2021 10:28
>> 
>> On 8/26/21 12:22 PM, Pavel Skripkin wrote:
>> > On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 08:51:23 +0000
>> > David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> wrote:
> ...
>> >> ...
>> >> > -static u32 usb_read32(struct intf_hdl *pintfhdl, u32 addr)
>> >> > +static int usb_read32(struct intf_hdl *pintfhdl, u32 addr, u32
>> >> > *data) {
>> >> >  	u8 requesttype;
>> >> >  	u16 wvalue;
>> >> >  	u16 len;
>> >> > -	__le32 data;
>> >> > +	int res;
>> >> > +	__le32 tmp;
>> >> > +
>> >> > +	if (WARN_ON(unlikely(!data)))
>> >> > +		return -EINVAL;
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Kill the NULL check - it is a silly coding error.
>> >> An OOPS is just as easy to debug.
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > I don't think that one single driver should kill the whole system. It's
>> > 100% an error, but kernel can recover from it (for example disconnect
>> > the driver, since it's broken).
>> >
>> >
>> > AFIAK, Greg and Linus do not like BUG_ONs in recoverable state...
>> > Correct me, if I am wrong
>> >
>> Oops, I thought about BUG_ON() instead of WARN_ON(), sorry for
>> confusion. My point is "we should not let the box boom".
> 
> 
> There is no point checking for NULL that just can't happen.
> In this case all the callers will pass the address of a local.
> There really is no point checking.
> 

We not always read in local variable, there are few places, where we 
read into passed buffer.



With regards,
Pavel Skripkin