[bug report] drm: Warn about negative sizes when calculating scale factor
Dan Carpenter
dan.carpenter at linaro.org
Fri Oct 20 11:39:04 UTC 2023
On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 05:17:42PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_rect.c
> 134 static int drm_calc_scale(int src, int dst)
> 135 {
> 136 int scale = 0;
> 137
> 138 if (WARN_ON(src < 0 || dst < 0))
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> These days, with automated fuzz testing, this WARN_ON() is problematic.
> WARN() is considered a kernel bug, and pr_warn() is the hip new way to
> alert the user about issues.
Btw, a lot of people (Greg claims it's the majority of Linux users)
these days have run kernels with panic on warn enabled so that's another
reason to avoid using WARN_ON() for stuff that it known to be possible.
regards,
dan carpenter
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