scatterlist: don't BUG when we can trivially return a proper error.
authorNick Bowler <[email protected]>
Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:05:20 +0000 (16:05 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:15:28 +0000 (17:15 -0800)
There is absolutely no reason to crash the kernel when we have a
perfectly good return value already available to use for conveying
failure status.

Let's return an error code instead of crashing the kernel: that sounds
like a much better plan.

[[email protected]: s/E2BIG/EINVAL/]
Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler <[email protected]>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
lib/scatterlist.c

index 3675452b23ca175b612489e362aa7274b75d96a5..7874b01e816e815466ccee3a08387b075503c72f 100644 (file)
@@ -248,7 +248,8 @@ int __sg_alloc_table(struct sg_table *table, unsigned int nents,
        unsigned int left;
 
 #ifndef ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN
-       BUG_ON(nents > max_ents);
+       if (WARN_ON_ONCE(nents > max_ents))
+               return -EINVAL;
 #endif
 
        memset(table, 0, sizeof(*table));