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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:11:58 +0200
From: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@...wei.com>
To: J Freyensee <why2jjj.linux@...il.com>, <david@...morbit.com>,
	<willy@...radead.org>, <keescook@...omium.org>, <mhocko@...nel.org>
CC: <labbott@...hat.com>, <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] genalloc: selftest



On 24/02/18 00:42, J Freyensee wrote:
> 
>> +	locations[action->location] = gen_pool_alloc(pool, action->size);
>> +	BUG_ON(!locations[action->location]);
> 
> Again, I'd think it through if you really want to use BUG_ON() or not:
> 
> https://lwn.net/Articles/13183/
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/4/1

Is it acceptable to display only a WARNing, in case of risking damaging
a mounted filesystem?

--
igor

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