Hello Garlic Tseng, The patch 283b612429a2: "ASoC: mediatek: implement mediatek common structure" from Jun 17, 2016, leads to the following Smatch static checker warning: sound/soc/mediatek/common/mtk-afe-fe-dai.c:364 mtk_afe_resume() error: we previously assumed 'afe->reg_back_up' could be null (see line 359) sound/soc/mediatek/common/mtk-afe-fe-dai.c 354 if (pm_runtime_status_suspended(dev) || !afe->suspended) 355 return 0; 356 357 afe->runtime_resume(dev); 358 359 if (!afe->reg_back_up) 360 dev_dbg(dev, "%s no reg_backup\n", __func__); Should this return? Also when ->reg_back_up is allocated there is no check for NULL so it seems like a very possible condition. 361 362 for (i = 0; i < afe->reg_back_up_list_num; i++) 363 mtk_regmap_write(regmap, afe->reg_back_up_list[i], --> 364 afe->reg_back_up[i]); 365 366 afe->suspended = false; 367 return 0; 368 } regards, dan carpenter