linux-kernel - Re: [patch] libsas: dereferencing variable before check

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Date:	Thu, 13 May 2010 01:08:05 +0200
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...e.de>
CC:	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] libsas: dereferencing variable before check



"Dan Carpenter" <error27@...il.com> wrote:

>The "qc->scsicmd" could be null so I moved the dereference inside the
>check.  This was introduced by 70b25f890: "[SCSI] fix locking around
>blk_abort_request()" 
>
>Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>

Ooh.. right.

Asked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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