Re: [PATCH] staging: most: video: replace BUG_ON() with WARN_ON() in comp_exit()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 10:00:24AM +0100, Gabriel Rondon wrote:
> Replace BUG_ON(!list_empty(&video_devices)) with WARN_ON() in the
> module exit function. BUG_ON() is deprecated as it crashes the entire
> kernel on assertion failure (see Documentation/process/deprecated.rst).
> WARN_ON() logs the unexpected condition without bringing down the
> system.
> 
> This is the last remaining BUG_ON() in the staging/most subsystem,
> following the dim2 series that replaced five BUG_ON() calls.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Rondon <grondon@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/most/video/video.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/most/video/video.c b/drivers/staging/most/video/video.c
> index 04351f8ccccf..17cdbea2e55a 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/most/video/video.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/most/video/video.c
> @@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ static void __exit comp_exit(void)
>  
>  	most_deregister_configfs_subsys(&comp);
>  	most_deregister_component(&comp);
> -	BUG_ON(!list_empty(&video_devices));
> +	WARN_ON(!list_empty(&video_devices));

WARN_ON() also crashes the system when panic-on-warn is enabled (as it
is in a few billion Linux systems...)

So please handle this properly, don't crash.

thanks,

greg k-h