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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: PATCH: Fix crash case
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:35:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155746131.24077.363.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)

If we are going to BUG() not panic() here then we should cover the case
of the BUG being compiled out

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>

diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.18-rc4-mm1/kernel/exit.c linux-2.6.18-rc4-mm1/kernel/exit.c
--- linux.vanilla-2.6.18-rc4-mm1/kernel/exit.c	2006-08-15 15:40:19.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc4-mm1/kernel/exit.c	2006-08-15 16:03:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -979,7 +979,8 @@
 	schedule();
 	BUG();
 	/* Avoid "noreturn function does return".  */
-	for (;;) ;
+	for (;;)
+		cpu_relax();	/* For when BUG is null */
 }
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(do_exit);


             reply	other threads:[~2006-08-16 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-16 16:35 Alan Cox [this message]
2006-08-16 17:39 ` PATCH: Fix crash case Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-16 19:10   ` Nick Warne
2006-08-16 19:15     ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-08-16 19:19       ` Nick Warne
2006-08-18  9:51   ` Andi Kleen

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