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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Bruno Prémont" <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>,
	"Greg KH" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent crash on missing sysfs attribute group
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 00:34:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120403223435.GC10161@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m18vid6qkb.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>


* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:

> > This has no relevance to the bug and crash pattern itself 
> > whatsoever, so stop blathering about unrelated things.
> 
> Crashing or BUG_ON or WARN_ON has no relevance to how hard it 
> is to debug this. [...]

Erm, so you think the difference between a nice WARN_ON() and a 
machine that *DOES NOT BOOT* is irrelevant?

In which universe? Smoking what kind of drugs?

Seriously, you need a reality check. We settled the BUG_ON() 
versus WARN_ON() debate about a decade ago, in favor of 
WARN_ON().

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-03 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-02 14:27 [3.4-rc1 crash]: NULL pointer deref in fs/sysfs/group.c:create_files -- sysctl related? Bruno Prémont
2012-04-02 14:50 ` Bruno Prémont
2012-04-02 19:01   ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-04-02 19:34     ` Bruno Prémont
2012-04-02 20:04       ` David Ahern
2012-04-03  8:30         ` Jiri Olsa
2012-04-02 21:24       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-04-02 21:46         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-04-03  5:38           ` Bruno Prémont
2012-04-03  6:02           ` Ingo Molnar
2012-04-03  6:17             ` [PATCH] Prevent crash on missing sysfs attribute group Bruno Prémont
2012-04-03  6:31               ` Ingo Molnar
2012-04-03  7:11               ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-04-03  7:15                 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-04-03  7:41                   ` [PATCH v2] Prevent crash on unset sysfs group attributes Bruno Prémont
2012-04-03  7:51                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-04-03  7:53                     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-04-03  7:59                     ` [PATCH v2a] sysfs: " Bruno Prémont
2012-04-03  8:06                       ` Ingo Molnar
2012-04-03  7:50                   ` [PATCH] Prevent crash on missing sysfs attribute group Eric W. Biederman
2012-04-03  8:04                     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-04-03  8:52                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-04-03 10:16                         ` Ingo Molnar
2012-04-03 10:46                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-04-03 22:34                             ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2012-04-03 14:27                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-04-03 23:22                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-04-03 23:26                         ` Greg KH

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