Hello Zack Rusin, The patch 8afa13a0583f: "drm/vmwgfx: Implement DRIVER_GEM" from Dec 6, 2021, leads to the following Smatch static checker warning: drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_bo.c:574 vmw_user_bo_synccpu_release() error: uninitialized symbol 'vmw_bo'. drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_bo.c 564 static int vmw_user_bo_synccpu_release(struct drm_file *filp, 565 uint32_t handle, 566 uint32_t flags) 567 { 568 struct vmw_buffer_object *vmw_bo; 569 int ret = vmw_user_bo_lookup(filp, handle, &vmw_bo); ^^^^^ Can this fail? 570 571 if (!(flags & drm_vmw_synccpu_allow_cs)) { 572 atomic_dec(&vmw_bo->cpu_writers); 573 } --> 574 ttm_bo_put(&vmw_bo->base); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Smatch thinks it can fail. 575 576 return ret; 577 } regards, dan carpenter