Hello Huang Rui, The patch 9667849bbb8d: "drm/amd/powerplay: add control gfxoff enabling in late init" from Mar 13, 2018, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../powerplay/amd_powerplay.c:194 pp_late_init() error: we previously assumed 'hwmgr' could be null (see line 185) drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../powerplay/amd_powerplay.c 179 static int pp_late_init(void *handle) 180 { 181 struct amdgpu_device *adev = handle; 182 struct pp_hwmgr *hwmgr = adev->powerplay.pp_handle; 183 int ret; 184 185 if (hwmgr && hwmgr->pm_en) { ^^^^^ Check 186 mutex_lock(&hwmgr->smu_lock); 187 hwmgr_handle_task(hwmgr, 188 AMD_PP_TASK_COMPLETE_INIT, NULL); 189 mutex_unlock(&hwmgr->smu_lock); 190 } 191 if (adev->pm.smu_prv_buffer_size != 0) 192 pp_reserve_vram_for_smu(adev); 193 194 if (hwmgr->hwmgr_func->gfx_off_control && ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Patch adds unchecked dereference. 195 (hwmgr->feature_mask & PP_GFXOFF_MASK)) { 196 ret = hwmgr->hwmgr_func->gfx_off_control(hwmgr, true); 197 if (ret) 198 pr_err("gfx off enabling failed!\n"); 199 } 200 201 return 0; 202 } regards, dan carpenter