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From:   Jinpu Wang <jinpu.wang@ionos.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 Oct 2022 12:36:03 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: pm8001: Drop !task check in pm8001_abort_task()
To:     John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc:     jinpu.wang@ionos.com, jejb@linux.ibm.com,
        martin.petersen@oracle.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com
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On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 12:25 PM John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> wrote:
>
> In commit 0b639decf651 ("scsi: pm8001: Modify task abort handling for SATA
> task"), code was introduced to dereference "task" pointer in
> pm8001_abort_task(). However there was a pre-existing later check for
> "!task", which spooked the kernel test robot.
>
> Function pm8001_abort_task() should never be passed NULL for "task"
> pointer, so remove that check. Also remove the "unlikely" hint, as this is
> not fastpath code.
>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@ionos.com>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_sas.c b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_sas.c
> index 2359e827c9e6..e5673c774f66 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_sas.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_sas.c
> @@ -979,7 +979,7 @@ int pm8001_abort_task(struct sas_task *task)
>         u32 phy_id, port_id;
>         struct sas_task_slow slow_task;
>
> -       if (unlikely(!task || !task->lldd_task || !task->dev))
> +       if (!task->lldd_task || !task->dev)
>                 return TMF_RESP_FUNC_FAILED;
>
>         dev = task->dev;
> --
> 2.25.1
>