Hello Alex Elder, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 64548e0638af: "rbd: enforce parent overlap" from Apr 21, 2013, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/block/rbd.c:1449 rbd_osd_read_callback() error: we previously assumed 'img_request' could be null (see line 1448) drivers/block/rbd.c 1447 img_request = obj_request->img_request; 1448 layered = img_request && img_request_layered_test(img_request); ^^^^^^^^^^^ Old check. 1449 rbd_dev = img_request->rbd_dev; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ New dereference. 1450 } 1451 regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html