Hello Mikulas Patocka, The patch 2105231db61b: "dm: add writecache target" from Mar 8, 2018, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/md/dm-writecache.c:1868 writecache_ctr() warn: 'wc->dm_io' is an error pointer or valid drivers/md/dm-writecache.c 1854 1855 wc = kzalloc(sizeof(struct dm_writecache), GFP_KERNEL); 1856 if (!wc) { 1857 ti->error = "Cannot allocate writecache structure"; 1858 r = -ENOMEM; 1859 goto bad; 1860 } 1861 ti->private = wc; 1862 wc->ti = ti; 1863 1864 mutex_init(&wc->lock); 1865 writecache_poison_lists(wc); 1866 init_swait_queue_head(&wc->freelist_wait); 1867 timer_setup(&wc->autocommit_timer, writecache_autocommit_timer, 0); 1868 1869 for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) { 1870 atomic_set(&wc->bio_in_progress[i], 0); 1871 init_swait_queue_head(&wc->bio_in_progress_wait[i]); 1872 } 1873 1874 wc->dm_io = dm_io_client_create(); 1875 if (!wc->dm_io) { ^^^^^^^^^ dm_io_client_create() returns error pointers. 1876 r = -ENOMEM; 1877 ti->error = "Unable to allocate dm-io client"; 1878 goto bad; ^^^^^^^^ I always tell people that one err style error handling is always buggy. 1879 } 1880 1881 wc->writeback_wq = alloc_workqueue("writecache-writeabck", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 1); 1882 if (!wc->writeback_wq) { 1883 r = -ENOMEM; 1884 ti->error = "Could not allocate writeback workqueue"; 1885 goto bad; 1886 } regards, dan carpenter -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel