>From Dan's list: drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c +1365 scsi_kill_request(9) warning: variable derefenced in initializer 'cmd' drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c +1365 scsi_kill_request(9) warning: variable derefenced before check 'cmd' We dereference cmd (and possible OOPS if cmd == NULL) before starting the request so just remove the superfluous debugging code altogether. [ bart: the potential NULL pointer dereference was finally fixed in (much later than mine) commit 03b1470 but my patch is still valid ] Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Cc: Eugene Teo <eteo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c =================================================================== --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c @@ -1366,12 +1366,6 @@ static void scsi_kill_request(struct req blk_start_request(req); - if (unlikely(cmd == NULL)) { - printk(KERN_CRIT "impossible request in %s.\n", - __func__); - BUG(); - } - sdev = cmd->device; starget = scsi_target(sdev); shost = sdev->host; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html