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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Itay Iellin <ieitayie@gmail.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 11/14] ida: dont use BUG_ON() for debugging
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 11:06:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220711090535.855946471@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220711090535.517697227@linuxfoundation.org>

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

commit fc82bbf4dede758007763867d0282353c06d1121 upstream.

This is another old BUG_ON() that just shouldn't exist (see also commit
a382f8fee42c: "signal handling: don't use BUG_ON() for debugging").

In fact, as Matthew Wilcox points out, this condition shouldn't really
even result in a warning, since a negative id allocation result is just
a normal allocation failure:

  "I wonder if we should even warn here -- sure, the caller is trying to
   free something that wasn't allocated, but we don't warn for
   kfree(NULL)"

and goes on to point out how that current error check is only causing
people to unnecessarily do their own index range checking before freeing
it.

This was noted by Itay Iellin, because the bluetooth HCI socket cookie
code does *not* do that range checking, and ends up just freeing the
error case too, triggering the BUG_ON().

The HCI code requires CAP_NET_RAW, and seems to just result in an ugly
splat, but there really is no reason to BUG_ON() here, and we have
generally striven for allocation models where it's always ok to just do

    free(alloc());

even if the allocation were to fail for some random reason (usually
obviously that "random" reason being some resource limit).

Fixes: 88eca0207cf1 ("ida: simplified functions for id allocation")
Reported-by: Itay Iellin <ieitayie@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 lib/idr.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/lib/idr.c
+++ b/lib/idr.c
@@ -1124,7 +1124,9 @@ void ida_simple_remove(struct ida *ida,
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
 
-	BUG_ON((int)id < 0);
+	if ((int)id < 0)
+		return;
+
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&simple_ida_lock, flags);
 	ida_remove(ida, id);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&simple_ida_lock, flags);



  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-07-11  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-11  9:06 [PATCH 4.9 00/14] 4.9.323-rc1 review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-11  9:06 ` [PATCH 4.9 01/14] mm/slub: add missing TID updates on slab deactivation Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-11  9:06 ` [PATCH 4.9 02/14] can: grcan: grcan_probe(): remove extra of_node_get() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-11  9:06 ` [PATCH 4.9 03/14] can: gs_usb: gs_usb_open/close(): fix memory leak Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-11  9:06 ` [PATCH 4.9 04/14] usbnet: fix memory leak in error case Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-11  9:06 ` [PATCH 4.9 05/14] net: rose: fix UAF bug caused by rose_t0timer_expiry Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-11  9:06 ` [PATCH 4.9 06/14] iommu/vt-d: Fix PCI bus rescan device hot add Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-11  9:06 ` [PATCH 4.9 07/14] video: of_display_timing.h: include errno.h Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-11  9:06 ` [PATCH 4.9 08/14] xfs: remove incorrect ASSERT in xfs_rename Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-11  9:06 ` [PATCH 4.9 09/14] pinctrl: sunxi: a83t: Fix NAND function name for some pins Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-11  9:06 ` [PATCH 4.9 10/14] i2c: cadence: Unregister the clk notifier in error path Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-11  9:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2022-07-11  9:06 ` [PATCH 4.9 12/14] dmaengine: at_xdma: handle errors of at_xdmac_alloc_desc() correctly Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-11  9:06 ` [PATCH 4.9 13/14] dmaengine: ti: Fix refcount leak in ti_dra7_xbar_route_allocate Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-11  9:06 ` [PATCH 4.9 14/14] dmaengine: ti: Add missing put_device " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-11 11:08 ` [PATCH 4.9 00/14] 4.9.323-rc1 review Pavel Machek
2022-07-11 17:55 ` Florian Fainelli
2022-07-12  1:11 ` Guenter Roeck
2022-07-12  2:46 ` Shuah Khan
2022-07-12  8:59 ` Naresh Kamboju
2022-07-12  9:18 ` Jon Hunter

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