From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28021C433E0 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2021 18:04:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01D6523A9C for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2021 18:04:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730059AbhAVSDk (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2021 13:03:40 -0500 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:37638 "EHLO verein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726024AbhAVRvQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:51:16 -0500 Received: by verein.lst.de (Postfix, from userid 2407) id 99C3A68B05; Fri, 22 Jan 2021 18:50:29 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 18:50:29 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Daniel Wagner Cc: linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Keith Busch , Jens Axboe , Christoph Hellwig , Sagi Grimberg Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme-multipath: Early exit if no path is available Message-ID: <20210122175029.GA21127@lst.de> References: <20210122174125.145734-1-dwagner@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210122174125.145734-1-dwagner@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 06:41:25PM +0100, Daniel Wagner wrote: > nvme_round_robin_path() should test if the return ns pointer is > valid. nvme_next_ns() will return a NULL pointer if there is no path > left. How can that happen once we're in the loop?