Re: Re: Re: Re: [PATCH] sata_dwc_460ex: Fix missing check in sata_dwc_isr

[dinghao . liu]

> On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 9:34 AM <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 1:20 PM <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 9:44 AM Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > > > This issue is reported by my static analysis tool, so I don't have the
> > > > vulnerable input currently.
> > >
> > > Should we blindly follow everything that some (non-ideal) tool
> > > reports? I don't think so.
> > > For all my experiments with that hardware, I haven't heard about the
> > > issue with NULL pointers. Useless checks make code harder to read and
> > > CPU to waste cycles. It might be maintainers of this driver consider
> > > otherwise, so not my call.
> > >
> >
> > Thanks for your advice. I also checked all use of ata_qc_from_tag() in the
> > whole kernel and found all of them had return value checks except for the
> > calls in sata_dwc_isr(), which is odd.
> 
> Thanks for this information, it makes sense to me. Perhaps you need to
> put this into the commit message to justify the need of the change.
> 

OK. I will fix this and send a new patch soon.

Regards,
Dinghao