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From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
To: "Dr. Philipp Tomsich" <philipp.tomsich@theobroma-systems.com>,
	Jakob Unterwurzacher <jakob.unterwurzacher@theobroma-systems.com>
Cc: Martin Elshuber <martin.elshuber@theobroma-systems.com>,
	Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>,
	linux-can@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] Open questions
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 18:48:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ba3f53b1-e8bb-4c61-b486-19b9865d6e22@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <06378497-1ACE-4333-810F-4E3E4706CCD5@theobroma-systems.com>


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On 03/13/2018 06:42 PM, Dr. Philipp Tomsich wrote:
> 
>> On 13 Mar 2018, at 18:40, Jakob Unterwurzacher
>> <jakob.unterwurzacher@theobroma-systems.com
>> <mailto:jakob.unterwurzacher@theobroma-systems.com>> wrote:
>>
>> >> +    /* get the urb context */
>> >> +    if (WARN_ON(!context))
>> >> +        return;
>> >
>> > Can this happen?
>>
>> Not unless there is a bug in the code. But we want to get a message
>> before dereferencing a pointer.
> 
> Why not use BUG_ON(!context)?

As this will halt the whole system.

Marc

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-13 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-13 17:35 [PATCH v2 0/1] can: ucan: add driver for Theobroma Systems UCAN devices Jakob Unterwurzacher
2018-03-13 17:35 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] " Jakob Unterwurzacher
2018-03-13 17:44   ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2018-03-13 17:53     ` Jakob Unterwurzacher
2018-03-13 17:56       ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2018-03-14  7:51   ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2018-03-14  9:09     ` Jakob Unterwurzacher
2018-03-14  9:36       ` rx_packets/bytes stats for error frames (was: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] can: ucan: add driver for Theobroma Systems UCAN devices) Marc Kleine-Budde
2018-03-14  9:46         ` rx_packets/bytes stats for error frames Wolfgang Grandegger
2018-03-14  9:57           ` Jakob Unterwurzacher
2018-03-14  9:11   ` [PATCH v2 1/1] can: ucan: add driver for Theobroma Systems UCAN devices Wolfgang Grandegger
2018-03-14  9:14     ` Jakob Unterwurzacher
2018-03-14  9:17       ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2018-03-14  9:21         ` Jakob Unterwurzacher
2018-03-14  9:25         ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2018-03-14  9:48           ` Jakob Unterwurzacher
2018-03-14 10:04             ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2018-03-14 10:19               ` Jakob Unterwurzacher
2018-03-14 19:07               ` Jakob Unterwurzacher
2018-03-15  6:58                 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2018-03-16  7:01   ` kbuild test robot
2018-03-16 12:14   ` kbuild test robot
2018-03-13 17:40 ` [PATCH v2 0/1] Open questions Jakob Unterwurzacher
     [not found]   ` <06378497-1ACE-4333-810F-4E3E4706CCD5@theobroma-systems.com>
2018-03-13 17:48     ` Jakob Unterwurzacher
2018-03-13 17:48     ` Marc Kleine-Budde [this message]

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