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Date:	Wed, 04 Jun 2014 15:36:34 -0400
From:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
To:	Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...atus.com>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] block,scsi: verify return pointer from blk_get_request

Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...atus.com> writes:

> The blk-core dead queue checks introduce an error scenario to
> blk_get_request that returns NULL if the request queue has been
> shutdown. This affects the behavior for __GFP_WAIT callers, who should
> verify the return value before dereferencing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...atus.com>
> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> [for pktdvd]
> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>

Heh.  Just reviewed by would be better.  ;-)  I'm sure Jens can sort
that out.

-Jeff
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