Re: [PATCH v2] blk-mq: Fix race between resetting the timer and completion handling

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On Thu, 2018-02-08 at 09:19 -0800, tj@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello, Bart.
> 
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 05:10:45PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > I think "dereferencing a pointer" means reading the memory location that pointer points
> > at? Anyway, I think we both interpret the crash report in the same way, namely that it
> > means that scmd->device == NULL.
> 
> No, what I'm trying to say is that it's is the device->host reference
> not the scmd->device reference.

Again, I think that means that we agree about the interpretation of the crash
report. The big question here is what the next step should be to analyze this
further and/or to avoid that this crash can occur?

Thanks,

Bart.









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