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From: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <edumazet@google.com>, <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
	<netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] net: ipv4: Use BUG_ON directly instead of a if condition followed by BUG
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 13:13:00 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5B9B435C.4020300@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180913.104254.1048729520825977993.davem@davemloft.net>

On 2018/9/14 1:42, David Miller wrote:
> From: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 21:13:13 +0800
>
>> The if condition can be removed if we use BUG_ON directly.
>> The issule is detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
> Taking Simon's feedback into consideration...
>
> I very often see changes like this and have to check the implementation
> of BUG_ON() et al. to make sure it evaluates it's arguments even when
> debugging is disabled.
>
> Even if it is always guaranteed to do so, like me people will be unsure
> forever and have to check.
>
> That makes auditing code and validating things more time consuming and
> hard.
>
> I also think the code as written now looks a lot nicer.
>
> So I'm not applying this, sorry.
>
> .
>
Get it.  Thank you for your explanation.

Sincerely,
zhong jiang


      reply	other threads:[~2018-09-14  5:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-11 13:13 [PATCHv2] net: ipv4: Use BUG_ON directly instead of a if condition followed by BUG zhong jiang
2018-09-13 10:28 ` Simon Horman
2018-09-13 17:42 ` David Miller
2018-09-14  5:13   ` zhong jiang [this message]

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