linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] scsi: mpi3mr: delete unnecessary NULL check

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Date:   Wed, 09 Jun 2021 23:01:38 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
        Tomas Henzl <thenzl@...hat.com>,
        Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@...adcom.com>,
        Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] scsi: mpi3mr: delete unnecessary NULL check


Dan,

> The "mrioc->intr_info" pointer can't be NULL, but if it could then the
> second iteration through the loop would Oops.  Let's delete the
> confusing and impossible NULL check.

Applied 1+2 to 5.14/scsi-staging, thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering