Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] Staging: media: omap4iss: Use WARN_ON() instead of BUG_ON().

From: Srishti Sharma
Date: Fri Sep 08 2017 - 10:17:08 EST


On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 7:40 PM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2017, Srishti Sharma wrote:
>
>> Use WARN_ON() instead of BUG_ON() to avoid crashing the kernel.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Srishti Sharma <srishtishar@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/staging/media/omap4iss/iss.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/omap4iss/iss.c b/drivers/staging/media/omap4iss/iss.c
>> index c26c99fd..b1036ba 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/media/omap4iss/iss.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/omap4iss/iss.c
>> @@ -893,7 +893,7 @@ void omap4iss_put(struct iss_device *iss)
>> return;
>>
>> mutex_lock(&iss->iss_mutex);
>> - BUG_ON(iss->ref_count == 0);
>> + WARN_ON(iss->ref_count == 0);
>> if (--iss->ref_count == 0) {
>
> Won't this then infinite loop?

Oh.. yes ! It would, sorry . Please drop this patch .

Regards,
Srishti

>
> julia
>
>> iss_disable_interrupts(iss);
>> /* Reset the ISS if an entity has failed to stop. This is the
>> --
>> 2.7.4
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