Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] KVM: x86: Use vector-hashing to deliver lowest-priority interrupts

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Mon Jan 25 2016 - 11:15:03 EST




On 25/01/2016 16:20, Radim KrcmÃr wrote:
> 2016-01-25 13:25+0100, Paolo Bonzini:
>> On 22/01/2016 15:01, Radim KrcmÃr wrote:
>>>> for (i = 0; i <= mod; i++) {
>>>> idx = find_next_bit(bitmap, bitmap_size, idx + 1);
>>>> BUG_ON(idx == bitmap_size);
>>>> }
>>
>> WARN_ON, not BUG_ON.
>
> Callers don't check the return value for an error, because every error
> is a BUG now. I think that we should check if we return bitmap_size.
> (Current paths could dereference NULL or throw unrelated warnings.)

You can probably just return a random number (e.g. zero or
find_first_bit) if the bug is hit. But really, the bug is easy enough
to verify that BUG_ON might even be okay...

Paolo