Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: vmalloc: Replace BUG_ON() by WARN_ON_ONCE()

[Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 07:27:04PM +0100, Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) wrote:
> Currently a vm_unmap_ram() functions triggers a BUG() if an area
> is not found. Replace it by the WARN_ON_ONCE() error message and
> keep machine alive instead of stopping it.
> 
> The worst case is a memory leaking.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
> ---
>  mm/vmalloc.c | 10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index 0fc38c36e0df..e05a0dc79ac5 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -2255,10 +2255,12 @@ void vm_unmap_ram(const void *mem, unsigned int count)
>  	}
>  
>  	va = find_unlink_vmap_area(addr);
> -	BUG_ON(!va);
> -	debug_check_no_locks_freed((void *)va->va_start,
> -				    (va->va_end - va->va_start));
> -	free_unmap_vmap_area(va);
> +
> +	if (!WARN_ON_ONCE(!va)) {
> +		debug_check_no_locks_freed((void *)va->va_start,
> +			(va->va_end - va->va_start));
> +		free_unmap_vmap_area(va);
> +	}
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_unmap_ram);
>  
> -- 
> 2.30.2
> 
Will send a v2.

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Uladzislau Rezki