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From: "Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
To: "davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: "nhorman@redhat.com" <nhorman@redhat.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Allan, Bruce W" <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>,
	"sassmann@redhat.com" <sassmann@redhat.com>,
	"jogreene@redhat.com" <jogreene@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next 03/16] fm10k: Avoid crashing the kernel
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 23:24:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1459985052.17828.22.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160405.121234.207383895896842448.davem@davemloft.net>

On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 12:12 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> As Joe suggested, it is not reasonable to expect all compilers to be
> able to figure
> out the result of all of the index increments in this function lead
> to a specific
> constant value.
> 
> Your only option is to either keep the code as-is, or add proper
> error reporting to
> this function and to all callers, in order to handle the situation at
> run time which
> I realize is exactly what you are trying to avoid.
> 
> If this crashes at run time with the BUG_ON(), it's going to happen
> really quickly
> when you bring the interface up.  So I don't see 
> the run time check as so tragic.

So we're ok with just not changing this then, and living with a crash?
That's fine with me, I suppose.

Should the second WARN_ONCE be changed to a BUG_ON as well to get a
crash instead of just a warning? 

Thanks,
Jake

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-06 23:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-05  8:01 [net-next 00/16][pull request] 100GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2016-04-05 Jeff Kirsher
2016-04-05  8:01 ` [net-next 01/16] fm10k: Move constants to the right of binary operators Jeff Kirsher
2016-04-05  8:01 ` [net-next 02/16] fm10k: cleanup remaining right-bit-shifted 1 Jeff Kirsher
2016-04-05  8:01 ` [net-next 03/16] fm10k: Avoid crashing the kernel Jeff Kirsher
2016-04-05  8:13   ` Joe Perches
2016-04-05 16:12   ` David Miller
2016-04-06 23:24     ` Keller, Jacob E [this message]
2016-04-05  8:01 ` [net-next 04/16] fm10k: demote BUG_ON() to WARN_ON() where appropriate Jeff Kirsher
2016-04-05  8:01 ` [net-next 05/16] fm10k: cleanup SPACE_BEFORE_TAB checkpatch warning Jeff Kirsher
2016-04-05  8:01 ` [net-next 06/16] fm10k: use ether_addr_copy to copy MAC address Jeff Kirsher
2016-04-05  8:01 ` [net-next 07/16] fm10k: prevent null pointer dereference of msix_entries table Jeff Kirsher
2016-04-05  8:01 ` [net-next 08/16] fm10k: don't initialize service task until later in probe Jeff Kirsher
2016-04-05  8:01 ` [net-next 09/16] fm10k: base queue scheme covered by RSS Jeff Kirsher
2016-04-05  8:01 ` [net-next 10/16] fm10k: print error message when stop_hw fails Jeff Kirsher
2016-04-05  8:01 ` [net-next 11/16] fm10k: free MBX IRQ before clearing interrupt scheme Jeff Kirsher
2016-04-05  8:01 ` [net-next 12/16] fm10k: add helper functions to set strings and data for ethtool stats Jeff Kirsher
2016-04-05  8:01 ` [net-next 13/16] fm10k: prevent possibly uninitialized variable Jeff Kirsher
2016-04-05  8:01 ` [net-next 14/16] fm10k: correctly clean up when init_queueing_scheme fails Jeff Kirsher
2016-04-05  8:01 ` [net-next 15/16] fm10k: fix a minor typo in some comments Jeff Kirsher
2016-04-05  8:01 ` [net-next 16/16] fm10k: use ethtool_rxfh_indir_default for default redirection table Jeff Kirsher

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