Hello Green Wan, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 6973886ad58e: "dmaengine: sf-pdma: add platform DMA support for HiFive Unleashed A00" from Nov 7, 2019, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/dma/sf-pdma/sf-pdma.c:103 sf_pdma_prep_dma_memcpy() error: we previously assumed 'chan' could be null (see line 97) drivers/dma/sf-pdma/sf-pdma.c 96 97 if (chan && (!len || !dest || !src)) { ^^^^ Check for NULL 98 dev_err(chan->pdma->dma_dev.dev, 99 "Please check dma len, dest, src!\n"); 100 return NULL; 101 } 102 103 desc = sf_pdma_alloc_desc(chan); ^^^^ Unchecked dereference inside the function. 104 if (!desc) 105 return NULL; regards, dan carpenter