Hello Linus Walleij, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 001485d5255c: "drm/pl111: Replace custom connector with panel bridge" from Sep 8, 2017, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/gpu/drm/pl111/pl111_drv.c:130 pl111_modeset_init() error: we previously assumed 'panel' could be null (see line 103) drivers/gpu/drm/pl111/pl111_drv.c 102 return ret; 103 if (panel) { ^^^^^ Patch adds new check 104 bridge = drm_panel_bridge_add(panel, 105 DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_Unknown); 106 if (IS_ERR(bridge)) { 107 ret = PTR_ERR(bridge); 108 goto out_config; 109 } 110 /* 111 * TODO: when we are using a different bridge than a panel 112 * (such as a dumb VGA connector) we need to devise a different 113 * method to get the connector out of the bridge. 114 */ 115 } 116 117 ret = pl111_display_init(dev); 118 if (ret != 0) { 119 dev_err(dev->dev, "Failed to init display\n"); 120 goto out_bridge; 121 } 122 123 ret = drm_simple_display_pipe_attach_bridge(&priv->pipe, 124 bridge); 125 if (ret) 126 return ret; 127 128 priv->bridge = bridge; 129 priv->panel = panel; 130 priv->connector = panel->connector; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ but it also adds a new dereference. 131 132 ret = drm_vblank_init(dev, 1); regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel