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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: "Geyslan Gregório Bem" <geyslan@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>, Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>,
	Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	XFS FILESYSTEM <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: fix possible NULL dereference
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 07:39:46 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131022203946.GB2797@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGG-pUTh-PJJ4Nzo0r-f3VDPMc81U2z_NMX+Wcex3KzGs=U8cA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 08:12:51AM -0200, Geyslan Gregório Bem wrote:
> 2013/10/21 Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>:
> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 07:00:59PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >> On 10/21/13 6:56 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 06:18:49PM -0500, Ben Myers wrote:
> >
> > Yes, but to continue the Devil's Advocate argument, the purpose of
> > debug code isn't to enlightent the casual reader or drive-by
> > patchers - it's to make life easier for people who actually spend
> > time debugging the code. And the people who need the debug code
> > are expected to understand why an ASSERT is not necessary. :)
> >
> Dave, Eric and Ben,
> 
> This was catched by coverity (CID 102348).

You should have put that in the patch description.

Now I understand why there's been a sudden surge of irrelevant one
line changes from random people that have never touched XFS before.

<sigh>

Ok, lets churn the code just to shut the stupid checker up. This
doesn't fix a bug, it doesn't change behaviour, it just makes
coverity happy. Convert it to the for loop plus ASSERT I mentioned
in a previous message.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-22 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-21 18:32 [PATCH] xfs: fix possible NULL dereference Geyslan G. Bem
     [not found] ` <5265956F.4010700@sandeen.net>
2013-10-21 22:44   ` Dave Chinner
2013-10-21 23:12     ` Eric Sandeen
2013-10-21 23:18       ` Ben Myers
2013-10-21 23:56         ` Dave Chinner
2013-10-22  0:00           ` Eric Sandeen
2013-10-22  0:17             ` Dave Chinner
2013-10-22 10:12               ` Geyslan Gregório Bem
2013-10-22 20:39                 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2013-10-22 20:49                   ` Eric Sandeen
2013-10-22 21:03                     ` Dave Chinner
2013-10-22 21:19                       ` Eric Sandeen
2013-10-22 22:02                         ` Dave Chinner
2013-10-22 22:33                           ` Ben Myers
2013-10-25  9:15                           ` Dave Jones
2013-10-23 10:58                         ` Geyslan Gregório Bem
2013-10-23 20:34                           ` Ben Myers
2013-10-23 20:53                             ` Geyslan Gregório Bem
2013-10-30 20:08                             ` Eric Sandeen
2013-10-31 15:55                               ` Ben Myers
2013-10-31 16:15                                 ` Geyslan Gregório Bem

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