On Fri, 2021-08-06 at 16:42 +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote: > The loop on entry of ata_host_start() may not initialize host->ops to > a non NULL value. The test on the host_stop field of host->ops must > then be preceded by a check that host->ops is not NULL. > > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c > index ea8b91297f12..fe49197caf99 100644 > --- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c > +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c > @@ -5573,7 +5573,7 @@ int ata_host_start(struct ata_host *host) > have_stop = 1; > } > > - if (host->ops->host_stop) > + if (host->ops && host->ops->host_stop) since have_stop was already set by the port ops, surely this entire if is redundant? James