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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>,
	Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>,
	ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] fs: ocfs2: move_extents.c: Fix to remove null pointer checks that could never happen
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 15:42:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140529154250.4be24a07ec68eb2eef41e8e2@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFo99gZm0b8QodT56r+wegY7LM=oWFqLmpE5cnN_MaiBrx1Fqg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 30 May 2014 00:39:24 +0200 Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se> wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> First, I'm no expert on this code, but after a patch which I thought
> was most accurate for the current code was written before, which was
> rather something like the code below.
> Then Jeff Liu that this was not something that could happen. So I send
> a patch where the check was removed instead.
> And that's where we are now. :-)
> 

Well if Jeff says that inode==NULL cannot happen then that is the info
I was after, and the original patch is OK.  Please resend, with that
important info in the changelog ;)

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-29 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1401222231-21656-1-git-send-email-rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
2014-05-29 21:03 ` [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] fs: ocfs2: move_extents.c: Fix to remove null pointer checks that could never happen Andrew Morton
2014-05-29 21:23   ` Dave Jones
2014-05-29 21:38     ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]       ` <CAFo99gZm0b8QodT56r+wegY7LM=oWFqLmpE5cnN_MaiBrx1Fqg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-05-29 22:42         ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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