On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 13:30 +0800, Li Zhong wrote: > Just noticed that after commit 919f797, it is possible that > scsi_cmd_to_driver() returns NULL. This patch adds the NULL checking for drv > returned from the above function. > > Maybe it is not possible at run time, but from the code itself, we'd better > have this check?
There's not much point having a check that never trips, unless it's an assert, in which case a NULL deref does that. All it does is add pointless instructions to the critical path. only REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC commands can be submitted without a driver, so the check above would seem to preclude that. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
