[PATCHv3 10/16] pps: use BUG_ON for kernel API safety checks

From: Alexander Gordeev
Date: Wed Aug 04 2010 - 17:19:46 EST


This way less overhead is involved when running production kernel.
If you want to debug a pps client module please define DEBUG to enable
the checks.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/pps/kapi.c | 33 ++++++++++-----------------------
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pps/kapi.c b/drivers/pps/kapi.c
index 8c557c4..220ab08 100644
--- a/drivers/pps/kapi.c
+++ b/drivers/pps/kapi.c
@@ -80,25 +80,14 @@ struct pps_device *pps_register_source(struct pps_source_info *info,
int err;

/* Sanity checks */
- if ((info->mode & default_params) != default_params) {
- pr_err("pps: %s: unsupported default parameters\n",
- info->name);
- err = -EINVAL;
- goto pps_register_source_exit;
- }
- if ((info->mode & (PPS_ECHOASSERT | PPS_ECHOCLEAR)) != 0 &&
- info->echo == NULL) {
- pr_err("pps: %s: echo function is not defined\n",
- info->name);
- err = -EINVAL;
- goto pps_register_source_exit;
- }
- if ((info->mode & (PPS_TSFMT_TSPEC | PPS_TSFMT_NTPFP)) == 0) {
- pr_err("pps: %s: unspecified time format\n",
- info->name);
- err = -EINVAL;
- goto pps_register_source_exit;
- }
+
+ /* default_params should be supported */
+ BUG_ON((info->mode & default_params) != default_params);
+ /* echo function should be defined if we are asked to call it */
+ BUG_ON((info->mode & (PPS_ECHOASSERT | PPS_ECHOCLEAR)) != 0 &&
+ info->echo == NULL);
+ /* time format should be specified */
+ BUG_ON((info->mode & (PPS_TSFMT_TSPEC | PPS_TSFMT_NTPFP)) == 0);

/* Allocate memory for the new PPS source struct */
pps = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pps_device), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -175,10 +164,8 @@ void pps_event(struct pps_device *pps, struct pps_event_time *ts, int event,
int captured = 0;
struct pps_ktime ts_real;

- if ((event & (PPS_CAPTUREASSERT | PPS_CAPTURECLEAR)) == 0) {
- dev_err(pps->dev, "unknown event (%x)\n", event);
- return;
- }
+ /* check event type */
+ BUG_ON((event & (PPS_CAPTUREASSERT | PPS_CAPTURECLEAR)) == 0);

dev_dbg(pps->dev, "PPS event at %ld.%09ld\n",
ts->ts_real.tv_sec, ts->ts_real.tv_nsec);
--
1.7.1

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