Hello Sudeep Holla, The patch ce028702ddbc: "mailbox: pcc: Move bulk of PCCT parsing into pcc_mbox_probe" from Sep 17, 2021, leads to the following Smatch static checker warning: drivers/mailbox/pcc.c:292 pcc_mbox_request_channel() error: uninitialized symbol 'dev'. drivers/mailbox/pcc.c 282 struct mbox_chan *chan; 283 struct device *dev; 284 unsigned long flags; 285 286 if (subspace_id < 0 || subspace_id >= pcc_chan_count) 287 return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); 288 289 pchan = chan_info + subspace_id; 290 chan = pchan->chan.mchan; 291 if (IS_ERR(chan) || chan->cl) { --> 292 dev_err(dev, "Channel not found for idx: %d\n", subspace_id); ^^^ "dev" is uninitialized. 293 return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY); 294 } 295 dev = chan->mbox->dev; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Set here. 296 297 spin_lock_irqsave(&chan->lock, flags); 298 chan->msg_free = 0; 299 chan->msg_count = 0; 300 chan->active_req = NULL; 301 chan->cl = cl; 302 init_completion(&chan->tx_complete); 303 304 if (chan->txdone_method == TXDONE_BY_POLL && cl->knows_txdone) 305 chan->txdone_method = TXDONE_BY_ACK; 306 307 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->lock, flags); 308 309 if (pchan->plat_irq > 0) { 310 int rc; 311 312 rc = devm_request_irq(dev, pchan->plat_irq, pcc_mbox_irq, 0, 313 MBOX_IRQ_NAME, chan); 314 if (unlikely(rc)) { 315 dev_err(dev, "failed to register PCC interrupt %d\n", 316 pchan->plat_irq); 317 pcc_mbox_free_channel(&pchan->chan); 318 return ERR_PTR(rc); 319 } 320 } 321 322 return &pchan->chan; 323 } regards, dan carpenter