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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Zheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com>
Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	huawei.libin@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] afs: fix no return statement in function returning non-void
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 12:48:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2bc0f5fd-2519-7b53-7535-99054607ea4c@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <02f8940c-e1af-fffa-8bb3-3bfa96bfafa9@infradead.org>

On 4/19/21 3:31 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 4/8/21 7:06 AM, David Howells wrote:
>> Zheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  static int afs_dir_set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
>>>  {
>>>  	BUG(); /* This should never happen. */
>>> +	return 0;
>>>  }
>>
>> That shouldn't be necessary.  BUG() should be marked as 'no return' to the
>> compiler.  What arch and compiler are you using?
> 
> How do mark a #define BUG() as __noreturn?
> 
> Several arch-es use #define for BUG() instead of using a function.

Hi David,

So you are counting of BUG() being a function and not a macro?

Doesn't seem like a good idea.

-- 
~Randy


  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-27 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-27 12:16 [PATCH] afs: fix no return statement in function returning non-void Zheng Zengkai
2021-03-31  2:32 ` Zheng Zengkai
2021-04-08 14:06 ` David Howells
2021-04-19 22:31   ` Randy Dunlap
2021-05-27 19:48     ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2021-06-15 11:55 David Howells
2021-06-15 12:03 ` David Howells
2021-06-15 14:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-15 23:58   ` Randy Dunlap
2021-06-16  0:32     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-16  1:38       ` Randy Dunlap
2021-06-16  2:19         ` Randy Dunlap
2021-06-16  3:15         ` Zheng Zengkai
2021-06-16 12:56           ` Tom Rix
2021-06-16 14:34             ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-16 16:22               ` Tom Rix
2021-06-16 16:29                 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-18 15:23                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-06-16 13:41           ` David Howells

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