Re: [PATCHv2] usb: f_fs: replace BUG in dead-code with less serious WARN_ON

From: Felipe Balbi
Date: Thu Sep 11 2014 - 12:57:06 EST


On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 06:52:49PM +0200, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
> Even though the BUG() in __ffs_event_add is a dead-code, it is still
> better to warn rather then crash the system if that code ever gets
> executed.
>
> Reported-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> On Wed, Sep 10 2014, Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > WARN(1, "unknown event type %d\n", type);
> > Then you can drop pr_vdebug();
>
> True, but the printk call will stay in the binary whereas pr_vdebug is not

not a big deal. I'd rather get a message all the time this triggers.

> included in non-debug builds. Furthermore, WARN() does not use pr_fmt.

not a big deal either, we will get a stack dump and can easily figure
out where that comes from.

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balbi

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