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sched/all: Change all BUG_ON() instances in the scheduler to WARN_ON_ONCE()

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There's no good reason to crash a user's system with a BUG_ON(),
chances are high that they'll never even see the crash message on
Xorg, and it won't make it into the syslog either.

By using a WARN_ON_ONCE() we at least give the user a chance to report
any bugs triggered here - instead of getting silent hangs.

None of these WARN_ON_ONCE()s are supposed to trigger, ever - so we ignore
cases where a NULL check is done via a BUG_ON() and we let a NULL
pointer through after a WARN_ON_ONCE().

There's one exception: WARN_ON_ONCE() arguments with side-effects,
such as locking - in this case we use the return value of the
WARN_ON_ONCE(), such as in:

 -       BUG_ON(!lock_task_sighand(p, &flags));
 +       if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!lock_task_sighand(p, &flags)))
 +               return;

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YvSsKcAXISmshtHo@gmail.com
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Ingo Molnar 2022-08-11 08:54:52 +02:00
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