[PATCH v2] ata: pata_macio: Use WARN instead of BUG

Sergei Shtylyov sergei.shtylyov at gmail.com
Thu Aug 22 07:13:52 AEST 2024


On 8/20/24 6:04 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:

> The overflow/underflow conditions in pata_macio_qc_prep() should never
> happen. But if they do there's no need to kill the system entirely, a
> WARN and failing the IO request should be sufficient and might allow the
> system to keep running.

   WARN*() can kill your system with panic_on_warn -- Android is particularly
fond of this kernel parameter but I guess it's not your case... :-)
   Greg KH usually advices against using these macros. :-)

> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
[...]

   Please do CC me on the PATA driver patches! This one circumvented my review
(again)... :-/

MBR, Sergey


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