Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] blktrace: upgrade warns to BUG_ON() on unexpected circmunstances

From: Bart Van Assche
Date: Sun Apr 19 2020 - 18:50:25 EST


On 4/19/20 12:45 PM, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
@@ -498,10 +498,7 @@ static struct dentry *blk_trace_debugfs_dir(struct blk_user_trace_setup *buts,
struct dentry *dir = NULL;
/* This can only happen if we have a bug on our lower layers */
- if (!q->kobj.parent) {
- pr_warn("%s: request_queue parent is gone\n", buts->name);
- return NULL;
- }
+ BUG_ON(!q->kobj.parent);

Does the following quote from Linus also apply to this patch: "there is NO F*CKING EXCUSE to knowingly kill the kernel." See also https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/4/1.

Thanks,

Bart.