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

From: Luis Chamberlain
Date: Sun Apr 19 2020 - 19:07:35 EST


On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 03:50:13PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> 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.

We can use WARN_ON() and keep the return NULL, sure.

Luis