Re: [PATCH scsi] Add NULL checking of return value from scsi_cmd_to_driver()

[Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 11:35 +0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 15:03 +0800, Li Zhong wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 09:44 +0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 13:30 +0800, Li Zhong wrote:
> > > > Just noticed that after commit 919f797, it is possible that 
> > > > scsi_cmd_to_driver() returns NULL. This patch adds the NULL checking for drv 
> > > > returned from the above function. 
> > > > 
> > > > Maybe it is not possible at run time, but from the code itself, we'd better
> > > > have this check?  
> > > 
> > > There's not much point having a check that never trips, unless it's an
> > > assert, in which case a NULL deref does that.  All it does is add
> > > pointless instructions to the critical path.  only REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC
> > > commands can be submitted without a driver, so the check above would
> > > seem to preclude that.
> > 
> > Hi James, 
> > 
> > Thank you, it sounds reasonable to me. Let's drop it. 
> 
> Well, there is another thing you might do: The path length of
> scsi_cmd_to_driver() increased a lot thanks to 18a4d0a22ed6 it might be
> worth getting it back to what it was (this looks to be doable with the
> same != REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC test in the error handler.  Plus, I think it
> fixes a bug where you get different behaviours from REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC
> commands when a driver is and isn't attached (I've cc'd Martin to see
> what he thinks).

Hi James, 

Do you mean something like this: 

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diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c
index de2337f..c1b05a8 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c
@@ -789,7 +789,6 @@ static int scsi_send_eh_cmnd(struct scsi_cmnd *scmd, unsigned char *cmnd,
 			     int cmnd_size, int timeout, unsigned sense_bytes)
 {
 	struct scsi_device *sdev = scmd->device;
-	struct scsi_driver *sdrv = scsi_cmd_to_driver(scmd);
 	struct Scsi_Host *shost = sdev->host;
 	DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(done);
 	unsigned long timeleft;
@@ -845,8 +844,11 @@ static int scsi_send_eh_cmnd(struct scsi_cmnd *scmd, unsigned char *cmnd,
 
 	scsi_eh_restore_cmnd(scmd, &ses);
 
-	if (sdrv && sdrv->eh_action)
-		rtn = sdrv->eh_action(scmd, cmnd, cmnd_size, rtn);
+	if (scmd->request->cmd_type != REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC) {
+		struct scsi_driver *sdrv = scsi_cmd_to_driver(scmd);
+		if (sdrv->eh_action)
+			rtn = sdrv->eh_action(scmd, cmnd, cmnd_size, rtn);
+	}
 
 	return rtn;
 }
diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h b/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h
index ac06cc5..377df4a 100644
--- a/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h
+++ b/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h
@@ -134,16 +134,7 @@ struct scsi_cmnd {
 
 static inline struct scsi_driver *scsi_cmd_to_driver(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd)
 {
-	struct scsi_driver **sdp;
-
-	if (!cmd->request->rq_disk)
-		return NULL;
-
-	sdp = (struct scsi_driver **)cmd->request->rq_disk->private_data;
-	if (!sdp)
-		return NULL;
-
-	return *sdp;
+	return *(struct scsi_driver **)cmd->request->rq_disk->private_data;
 }
 
 extern struct scsi_cmnd *scsi_get_command(struct scsi_device *, gfp_t);