Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:30:48PM -0800, Mingming Cao wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:25 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: >> >>> ext4: Don't panic in case of corrupt bitmap >>> >>> From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> Multiblock allocator was calling BUG_ON in many case if the free and used >>> blocks count obtained looking at the bitmap is different from what >>> the allocator internally accounted for. Use ext4_error in such case >>> and don't panic the system. >>> >> There seems a lot of BUG_ON() and BUG() in mballoc code, other than this >> case. Should it always panic the whole system in those cases? Perhaps >> replacing with ext4_error() or some cases just WARN_ON is enough. >> > > I had looked at the BUG_ON in mballoc code and found them very useful > while stabilizing the mballoc code. It helped to catch wrong usage of > functions. Most of the BUG_ON are there to make sure we call the API > with the lock held or the API should not return value greater than 'x' > Should not call the function with a particular argument as NULL ...etc > kind of thing. So i would suggest to keep them as such.
Yep - as long as the BUG_ONs are for programming errors, and not things like memory allocation failures or corrupted disks, I think it's ok. Not that I've audited them all. :) I asked about this early on, and got that answer... I'm reasonably satisfied with it. -Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
