From: Wei Yongjun The mpio dereference should be moved below the BUG_ON NULL test in multipath_end_io(). spatch with a semantic match was used to found this. (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- drivers/md/dm-mpath.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c +++ linux/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c @@ -1309,13 +1309,14 @@ static int multipath_end_io(struct dm_ta { struct multipath *m = ti->private; struct dm_mpath_io *mpio = map_context->ptr; - struct pgpath *pgpath = mpio->pgpath; + struct pgpath *pgpath; struct path_selector *ps; int r; BUG_ON(!mpio); r = do_end_io(m, clone, error, mpio); + pgpath = mpio->pgpath; if (pgpath) { ps = &pgpath->pg->ps; if (ps->type->end_io)