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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 09:19:34 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] blk-mq: Fix race between resetting the timer and
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Hello, Bart.

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 05:10:45PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> I think "dereferencing a pointer" means reading the memory location that pointer points
> at? Anyway, I think we both interpret the crash report in the same way, namely that it
> means that scmd->device == NULL.

No, what I'm trying to say is that it's is the device->host reference
not the scmd->device reference.

Thanks.

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tejun