Hello Stephen Boyd, The patch 357aa4b61c82: "of: unittest: Add phandle remapping test" from Jan 30, 2018, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/of/unittest.c:567 of_unittest_parse_phandle_with_args_map() error: potential zalloc NULL dereference: 'args.np' drivers/of/unittest.c 511 for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) { 512 bool passed = true; 513 514 memset(&args, 0, sizeof(args)); ^^^^^ args.np set to NULL. 515 rc = of_parse_phandle_with_args_map(np, "phandle-list", 516 "phandle", i, &args); ^^^^^ A bunch of error paths don't set args.np. 517 518 /* Test the values from tests-phandle.dtsi */ 519 switch (i) { 520 case 0: 521 passed &= !rc; 522 passed &= (args.np == p1); 523 passed &= (args.args_count == 1); 524 passed &= (args.args[0] == 1); 525 break; 526 case 1: 527 passed &= !rc; 528 passed &= (args.np == p3); 529 passed &= (args.args_count == 3); 530 passed &= (args.args[0] == 2); 531 passed &= (args.args[1] == 5); 532 passed &= (args.args[2] == 3); 533 break; 534 case 2: 535 passed &= (rc == -ENOENT); 536 break; 537 case 3: 538 passed &= !rc; 539 passed &= (args.np == p0); 540 passed &= (args.args_count == 0); 541 break; 542 case 4: 543 passed &= !rc; 544 passed &= (args.np == p1); 545 passed &= (args.args_count == 1); 546 passed &= (args.args[0] == 3); 547 break; 548 case 5: 549 passed &= !rc; 550 passed &= (args.np == p0); 551 passed &= (args.args_count == 0); 552 break; 553 case 6: 554 passed &= !rc; 555 passed &= (args.np == p2); 556 passed &= (args.args_count == 2); 557 passed &= (args.args[0] == 15); 558 passed &= (args.args[1] == 0x20); 559 break; 560 case 7: 561 passed &= (rc == -ENOENT); 562 break; 563 default: 564 passed = false; 565 } 566 --> 567 unittest(passed, "index %i - data error on node %s rc=%i\n", 568 i, args.np->full_name, rc); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Potential NULL dereference. 569 } 570 regards, dan carpenter