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>
diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c index 3675452b..7874b01 100644 --- a/lib/scatterlist.c +++ b/lib/scatterlist.c
@@ -248,7 +248,8 @@ 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));