linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: ocfs2: move_extents.c: Fix to remove null pointer checks that could never happen

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Date:	Thu, 29 May 2014 15:42:50 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@...e.com>,
	Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>, ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Liu <jeff.liu@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: ocfs2: move_extents.c: Fix to remove null pointer
 checks that could never happen

On Fri, 30 May 2014 00:39:24 +0200 Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se> wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> First, I'm no expert on this code, but after a patch which I thought
> was most accurate for the current code was written before, which was
> rather something like the code below.
> Then Jeff Liu that this was not something that could happen. So I send
> a patch where the check was removed instead.
> And that's where we are now. :-)
> 

Well if Jeff says that inode==NULL cannot happen then that is the info
I was after, and the original patch is OK.  Please resend, with that
important info in the changelog ;)

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