From 6fd59a83b9261fa53eaf98fb5514abba504a3ea3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:05:20 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] scatterlist: don't BUG when we can trivially return a proper error. 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. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/E2BIG/EINVAL/] Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com> Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> --- lib/scatterlist.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c index 3675452b23ca1..7874b01e816e8 100644 --- a/lib/scatterlist.c +++ b/lib/scatterlist.c @@ -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)); -- 2.30.2