Hello Srinivas Kandagatla, The patch 308811a327c3: "ASoC: soc-dai: return proper error for get_sdw_stream()" from Mar 16, 2020, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/soundwire/stream.c:1920 sdw_shutdown_stream() error: 'sdw_stream' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR() drivers/soundwire/stream.c 1902 void sdw_shutdown_stream(void *sdw_substream) 1903 { 1904 struct snd_pcm_substream *substream = sdw_substream; 1905 struct snd_soc_pcm_runtime *rtd = substream->private_data; 1906 struct sdw_stream_runtime *sdw_stream; 1907 struct snd_soc_dai *dai; 1908 1909 /* Find stream from first CPU DAI */ 1910 dai = asoc_rtd_to_cpu(rtd, 0); 1911 1912 sdw_stream = snd_soc_dai_get_sdw_stream(dai, substream->stream); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ We updated this to return error pointers as well as NULL but forgot to check the caller. 1913 1914 if (!sdw_stream) { 1915 dev_err(rtd->dev, "no stream found for DAI %s", dai->name); 1916 return; 1917 } 1918 1919 /* release memory */ 1920 kfree(sdw_stream->name); 1921 sdw_release_stream(sdw_stream); 1922 regards, dan carpenter