Re: [PATCH] lib/dynamic_queue_limits.c: relax BUG_ON to WARN_ON in dql_complete()

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Oct 19 2017 - 06:58:12 EST


From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 16:45:15 +0100

> Even though calling dql_completed() with a count that exceeds the
> queued count is a serious error, it still does not justify bringing
> down the entire kernel with a BUG_ON(). So relax it to a WARN_ON()
> instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>

This is bogus.

Unless you are going to do all of the work necessary to fix
the out-of-bounds condition here, you cannot safely continue
into the rest of this function.

Things are going to explode in many places if you don't, at
a minimum, fix the 'count' value to be in range.

But like others I don't like this, the driver needs to be fixed
urgently if this condition triggers.

Sorry I'm not applying this.