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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: avoid NULL deref after failed allocation
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:15:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y717ni3x.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87abdnt62c.fsf@rho.meyering.net> (Jim Meyering's message of "Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:39:07 +0200")

Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> writes:

> However, in some places, the trend is
> to BUG_ON(!ptr), so I've done that, too.

Even if it's a trend, it's wrong.  Better don't add more. 
And also unnecessary because next reference will obviously oops anyways.

-Andi

      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-02 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-02 14:39 [PATCH] Btrfs: avoid NULL deref after failed allocation Jim Meyering
2008-10-02 15:15 ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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