Re: [PATCH 1/1] [staging]: android:ion: replace BUG with WARN_ON

From: Greg KH
Date: Sat Sep 09 2017 - 10:29:11 EST


On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 06:59:42PM +0530, Pintu Kumar wrote:
> This patch is the fix for the below checkpatch issue:
> CHECK: Avoid crashing the kernel - try using WARN_ON &
> recovery code rather than BUG() or BUG_ON()
> + BUG();
>
> Ideally this condition should never occur. But even if occurs
> there is no point in crashing the whole kernel.
> Just a warning should be enough to find the issue.

Nope, see the archives for when this has been rejected in the past.

You can't just trivially replace BUG with WARN, otherwise it would have
been done already :)

sorry,

greg k-h