linux-kernel - Re: [ceph-devel] bug report: ceph: && vs ||

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Date:	Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:59:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Sage Weil <sage@...dream.net>
To:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
cc:	ceph-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ceph-devel] bug report: ceph: && vs ||

On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 
> 
>   1772          /* correct session? */
>   1773          if (!req->r_session && req->r_session != session) {
> 
> 	Is this supposed to || here?  We know "session" is non-NULL at
> 	the point because we already dereferenced it.  If "req->r_session"
> 	is null then the second condition is always true.
> 
> 	Also we dereference "req->r_session" later on without checking.

Yeah, that check is clearly wrong.  A

	if (req->r_session != session) {

is sufficient because the passed session is always non-NULL.  Applied a 
fix.

Thanks-
sage
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