[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] fs: ocfs2: move_extents.c: Fix to remove null pointer checks that could never happen

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Thu May 29 15:42:50 PDT 2014


On Fri, 30 May 2014 00:39:24 +0200 Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist at 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 ;)




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