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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jeff Woods <kazrak+kernel@cesmail.net>
Cc: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [PATCH] oops in sd_shutdown
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 14:36:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030812213646.GB2158@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.0.20030811233014.02900008@no.incoming.mail>

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:35:26PM -0700, Jeff Woods wrote:
> At +0200 04:49 AM 8/12/2003, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> >On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 06:13:50PM -0700, Jeff Woods wrote:
> >
> >>Looking only at the above code snippet, I'd suggest something more like:
> >
> >>+       if (!sdp ||
> >
> >This is not meaningful.
> 
> How is it not meaningful?  The next action in the expression is to 
> dereference the pointer and if it has a NULL value then I expect the 
> dereference to fail.  [But I am a complete newbie with respect to Linux 
> kernel and driver code so perhaps my understanding is in error.  If so, 
> please enlighten me.]

sdp can not be NULL in this case.  That is why it is not meaningful to
try to check for it.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-12 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.53.0308111426570.16008@thevillage.soulcatcher>
2003-08-11 22:28 ` [PATCH] oops in sd_shutdown Andries Brouwer
2003-08-12  1:13   ` Jeff Woods
2003-08-12  2:49     ` Andries Brouwer
2003-08-12  6:35       ` Jeff Woods
2003-08-12 21:36         ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-08-12  6:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-12  8:51     ` Andries Brouwer
2003-08-12 21:35     ` [linux-usb-devel] " Greg KH
2003-08-13  0:24       ` Mike Anderson
2003-08-13 10:46         ` Andries Brouwer

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