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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Cc: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
	Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>,
	devel@lists.orangefs.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] orangefs: remove redundant assignment to variable buffer_index
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 18:03:11 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190521150311.GL31203@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOg9mSQt42NQu-3nwZOCGOPx45y7G8aaiDaVe4SwotGnD9iY1A@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 12:06:31PM -0400, Mike Marshall wrote:
> Hi Colin...
> 
> Thanks for the patch. Before I initialized buffer_index, Dan Williams sent
> in a warning that a particular error path could try to use ibuffer_index
> uninitialized. I could induce the problem he described with one
> of the xfstests resulting in a crashed kernel. I will try to refactor
> the code to fix the problem some other way than initializing
> buffer_index in the declaration.
> 

The only explanation I can think of is that you guys are discussing
different code.  :P

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-21 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-11 13:27 [PATCH] orangefs: remove redundant assignment to variable buffer_index Colin King
2019-05-16 16:06 ` Mike Marshall
2019-05-21 15:03   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2019-06-25 18:55     ` Mike Marshall
2019-06-26  6:18       ` Dan Carpenter
2019-06-26 14:56         ` Colin Ian King
2019-05-21 15:01 ` Dan Carpenter
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-10-17 21:49 Colin Ian King

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