[Cluster-devel] GFS2: Use resizable hash table for glocks

----- Original Message -----
> Hello Bob Peterson,
> 
> The patch 6afe4c76af37: "GFS2: Use resizable hash table for glocks"
> from Mar 16, 2015, leads to the following static checker warning:
> 
> 	fs/gfs2/glock.c:1798 gfs2_glock_iter_next()
> 	error: 'gi->gl' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
> 
> fs/gfs2/glock.c
>   1793  static void gfs2_glock_iter_next(struct gfs2_glock_rht_iter *gi)
>   1794  {
>   1795          do {
>   1796                  gi->gl = rhashtable_walk_next(&gi->hti);
>                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> can return -EAGAIN sometimes.
> 
>   1797          /* Skip entries for other sb and dead entries */
>   1798          } while ((gi->gl) && ((gi->sdp != gi->gl->gl_name.ln_sbd) ||
>                                                   ^^^^^^^^
> Might be an issue here, might not.  I don't know the subsystem well
> enough to know when it returns NULL vs -EAGAIN.
> 
>   1799
>   __lockref_is_dead(&gi->gl->gl_lockref)));
>   1800  }
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 

Thanks, Dan. I'll craft a fix.

Bob Peterson
Red Hat File Systems