From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756756Ab3IYBsG (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Sep 2013 21:48:06 -0400 Received: from intranet.asianux.com ([58.214.24.6]:7717 "EHLO intranet.asianux.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753495Ab3IYBsD (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Sep 2013 21:48:03 -0400 X-Spam-Score: -100.7 Message-ID: <52424094.3020504@asianux.com> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:47:00 +0800 From: Chen Gang User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tejun Heo CC: Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Michael Kerrisk Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/groups.c: consider about NULL for 'group_info' in all related extern functions References: <5212DBFA.8030805@asianux.com> <20130923150625.GB14547@htj.dyndns.org> <52410A40.1000304@asianux.com> <20130924040601.GA31575@mtj.dyndns.org> <524114B8.3070903@asianux.com> <20130924120429.GA2366@htj.dyndns.org> <5242331B.4010309@asianux.com> <20130925005802.GA25777@htj.dyndns.org> <5242372C.4010509@asianux.com> <20130925011404.GB25777@htj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20130925011404.GB25777@htj.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/25/2013 09:14 AM, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:06:52AM +0800, Chen Gang wrote: >> OK, I see, the 'root cause' is: "you are not the related maintainer >> either", so it is really necessary for me to spend additional time >> resource on it :-(. > > Yeah, at least partly. That and the fact that I'm not too willing to > dig into the code without further evidence. It isn't anything strange > to ask tho and I'm likely to do that even for subsystems that I know > intimately if the subject code has been stable / stale for years and > the analysis doesn't seem immediately convincing. And, if my > experience is anything to go by, it's not too unlikely that you might > hit something which doesn't agree with your current assumptions while > trying to actually trigger the problem. > > Thanks. > Excuse me, my English is not quite well, I do not quite understand what you said (but it seems what you said is reasonable, and not need reply). Thanks. -- Chen Gang