On Mon, 2020-09-21 at 13:04 -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
> This BUG_ON, from 2009, caught the impossible case of a word-char both
> starting and ending a string (loosely speaking). A bad (reverted)
> patch finally hit this case, but even "impossibly bad input" is no
> reason to panic the kernel. Instead pr_err and return -EINVAL.
[]
> diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
[]
> @@ -259,7 +259,10 @@ static int ddebug_tokenize(char *buf, char *words[], int
> maxwords)
> } else {
> for (end = buf; *end && !isspace(*end); end++)
> ;
> - BUG_ON(end == buf);
> + if (end == buf) {
> + pr_err("expected non-empty bareword");
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This message is also unintelligible.
What is a non-empty bareword?
