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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: HighPoint Linux Team <linux@highpoint-tech.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/11] drivers/scsi: Eliminate a NULL pointer dereference
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 16:53:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100527165301.GU22515@bicker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1005271433330.5422@ask.diku.dk>

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 02:33:47PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> If it is a problem to use 0 when host is NULL, then the code could be fixed
> in another way.
> 

Yeah.  It seems like it would be better to give a clearly bogus number.
I would have said -1 but "scsi-1" looks normal so maybe something like 
9999999?

regards,
dan carpenter

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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: HighPoint Linux Team <linux@highpoint-tech.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/11] drivers/scsi: Eliminate a NULL pointer dereference
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 18:53:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100527165301.GU22515@bicker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1005271433330.5422@ask.diku.dk>

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 02:33:47PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> If it is a problem to use 0 when host is NULL, then the code could be fixed
> in another way.
> 

Yeah.  It seems like it would be better to give a clearly bogus number.
I would have said -1 but "scsi-1" looks normal so maybe something like 
9999999?

regards,
dan carpenter

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-27 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-27 12:33 [PATCH 7/11] drivers/scsi: Eliminate a NULL pointer dereference Julia Lawall
2010-05-27 12:33 ` Julia Lawall
2010-05-27 16:53 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2010-05-27 16:53   ` Dan Carpenter
2010-05-27 17:08   ` walter harms
2010-05-27 17:08     ` walter harms
2010-05-27 17:08     ` walter harms
2010-05-27 17:13     ` Julia Lawall
2010-05-27 17:13       ` Julia Lawall

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