On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 12:13 PM, chetan loke <loke.che...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Gosh. Can we also replace this BUG() into something less aggressive ? >> >> >> There are currently 5 of these WARN() + BUG() constructs and 1 BUG()-only >> for the 'default' TPACKET version spread all over af_packet, so probably >> makes sense to rather make all of them less aggressive. >> >> > > Very few consumers actually go looking in the kernel logs to see the > error-warnings and report them back here. > > This severity will get them to report the incident which in this case > got fixed??
But BUG_ONs in the datapath can cause outages in real production environments. This should not happen for recoverable failures. For users who cannot be bothered to check their logs, there is sysctl kernel.panic_on_warn.
