Re: [PATCH 1/1 linux-next] scripts/coccinelle/misc/bugon.cocci: update bug_on conversion warning

[Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, Fabian Frederick wrote:

> if()/BUG conversion to BUG_ON must be avoided when there's side effect
> in condition. The reason being BUG_ON won't execute condition when CONFIG_BUG
> is not defined.
> 
> Inspired-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
> Suggested-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
> Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>


Acked by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>

modulo the suggestion below.

> ---
>  scripts/coccinelle/misc/bugon.cocci | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/coccinelle/misc/bugon.cocci b/scripts/coccinelle/misc/bugon.cocci
> index 3b7eec2..0d18022 100644
> --- a/scripts/coccinelle/misc/bugon.cocci
> +++ b/scripts/coccinelle/misc/bugon.cocci
> @@ -57,6 +57,6 @@ coccilib.org.print_todo(p[0], "WARNING use BUG_ON")
>  p << r.p;
>  @@
>  
> -msg="WARNING: Use BUG_ON"
> +msg="WARNING: Use BUG_ON instead of if condition followed by BUG.\nPlease make sure condition has no side effects (see conditional BUG_ON definition in include/asm-generic/bug.h)"
>  coccilib.report.print_report(p[0], msg)

"make sure condition" would be nicer as "make sure the condition".

thanks,
julia

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