Re: [PATCH] RDS: Fix rds-ping inducing kernel panic

[Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>]

On 1/22/2018 7:47 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 17:10:54 +0200
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 03:24:15AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
>>> diff --git a/net/rds/ib_send.c b/net/rds/ib_send.c
>>> index 8557a1cae041..5fbf635d17cb 100644
>>> --- a/net/rds/ib_send.c
>>> +++ b/net/rds/ib_send.c
>>> @@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ int rds_ib_xmit(struct rds_connection *conn, struct rds_message *rm,
>>>   	int flow_controlled = 0;
>>>   	int nr_sig = 0;
>>>
>>> -	BUG_ON(off % RDS_FRAG_SIZE);
>>> +	BUG_ON(!conn->c_loopback && off % RDS_FRAG_SIZE);
>>>   	BUG_ON(hdr_off != 0 && hdr_off != sizeof(struct rds_header));
>>
>> To be honest this function full of BUG_ONs and it looks fishy to have them there.
>> Why don't we return EINVAL instead of crashing system?
> 
> I completely agree that these assertions should just cause an error-out
> rather than trigger a BUG().

Andy did remove bunch of them but there are still few more left overs.
Will have a look at remainder set since most of them were added during
early development and remained there. Thanks Dave/Leon.

Regards,
Santosh