Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] block,scsi: verify return pointer from blk_get_request

[Jeff Moyer]

Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The blk-core dead queue checks introduce an error scenario to
> blk_get_request that returns NULL if the request queue has been
> shutdown. This affects the behavior for __GFP_WAIT callers, who should
> verify the return value before dereferencing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> [for pktdvd]
> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>

Heh.  Just reviewed by would be better.  ;-)  I'm sure Jens can sort
that out.

-Jeff
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