Hello Shengjiu Wang, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 955ac624058f: "ASoC: fsl_easrc: Add EASRC ASoC CPU DAI drivers" from Apr 16, 2020, leads to the following Smatch complaint: sound/soc/fsl/fsl_easrc.c:1529 fsl_easrc_hw_free() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'ctx' (see line 1527) sound/soc/fsl/fsl_easrc.c 1526 struct fsl_asrc_pair *ctx = runtime->private_data; 1527 struct fsl_easrc_ctx_priv *ctx_priv = ctx->private; ^^^^^ Dereference 1528 1529 if (ctx && (ctx_priv->ctx_streams & BIT(substream->stream))) { ^^^ This check is too late, to prevent a NULL dereference. 1530 ctx_priv->ctx_streams &= ~BIT(substream->stream); 1531 fsl_easrc_release_context(ctx); regards, dan carpenter