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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:58:19 +0000
Subject: Re: [patch] block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
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To: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org

Hello,

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:59:37PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> "disk" is always NULL when we goto out.  There was a check for this
> before, but it was removed in 69e02c59a7d9 "block: Don't check events
> while open is in progress".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

 Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Sorry about the trouble.  I hate that function.  :-(

-- 
tejun