Re: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: add BUG_ON on illegal return values fromscan_objects

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:14:27AM +0200, Oskar Andero wrote:
> Add a BUG_ON to catch any illegal value from the shrinkers. This fixes a
> potential bug if scan_objects returns a negative other than -1, which
> would lead to undefined behaviour.

So it's better to crash a machine and keep anyone from using it?
Instead of recovering from an error you found?  Not good.

greg k-h
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