Am Dienstag, 27. April 2004 00:14 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 04:05:17PM +0200, Duncan Sands wrote:
> > diff -Nru a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
> > --- a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c      Mon Apr 26 13:48:28 2004
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c      Mon Apr 26 13:48:28 2004
> > @@ -350,8 +350,8 @@
> >      * all pending I/O requests; 2.6 does that.
> >      */
> >
> > -   if (ifnum < 8*sizeof(ps->ifclaimed))
> > -           clear_bit(ifnum, &ps->ifclaimed);
> > +   BUG_ON(ifnum >= 8*sizeof(ps->ifclaimed));
>
> I've changed that to a WARN_ON().  Yeah, writing over memory is bad, but
> oopsing is worse.  Let's be a bit nicer than that.

You aren't nice that way. An oops has localised consequences. Scribbling
over memory can cause anything.

        Regards
                Oliver



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