Re: [PATCH 1/6] lib/rhashtable: convert param sanitations to WARN_ON

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Mon May 28 2018 - 05:41:10 EST


On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 02:11:30PM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> For the purpose of making rhashtable_init() unable to fail,
> we can replace the returning -EINVAL with WARN_ONs whenever
> the caller passes bogus parameters during initialization.
>
> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxx>

I don't really see why we need these WARN_ONs. The problem should
be quite obvious when you're writing your code.

If you really want them perhaps add them to the ipc code instead?

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