linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernel/groups.c: consider about NULL for 'group

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Date:	Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:34:21 +0800
From:	Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/groups.c: consider about NULL for 'group_info'
 in all related extern functions

On 09/25/2013 09:47 AM, Chen Gang wrote:
> On 09/25/2013 09:14 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:06:52AM +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
>>> OK, I see, the 'root cause' is: "you are not the related maintainer
>>> either", so it is really necessary for me to spend additional time
>>> resource on it :-(.
>>
>> Yeah, at least partly.  That and the fact that I'm not too willing to
>> dig into the code without further evidence.  It isn't anything strange
>> to ask tho and I'm likely to do that even for subsystems that I know
>> intimately if the subject code has been stable / stale for years and
>> the analysis doesn't seem immediately convincing.  And, if my
>> experience is anything to go by, it's not too unlikely that you might
>> hit something which doesn't agree with your current assumptions while
>> trying to actually trigger the problem.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
> 

Excuse me, I have to do some urgent internal things within my company,
so the test and confirmation may be delayed (I will try to finish test
within this month: 2013-09-30).

> Excuse me, my English is not quite well, I do not quite understand what
> you said (but it seems what you said is reasonable, and not need reply).
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 


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Chen Gang
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