Hello Aaron Lu, The patch dce4ec2e452f: "ACPI / video: Run _BCL before deciding registering backlight" from Oct 28, 2014, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c:1659 acpi_video_run_bcl_for_osi() warn: calling kfree() when 'levels' is always NULL. drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c 1651 static void acpi_video_run_bcl_for_osi(struct acpi_video_bus *video) 1652 { 1653 struct acpi_video_device *dev; 1654 union acpi_object *levels; 1655 1656 mutex_lock(&video->device_list_lock); 1657 list_for_each_entry(dev, &video->video_device_list, entry) { 1658 if (!acpi_video_device_lcd_query_levels(dev, &levels)) 1659 kfree(levels); kfree(NULL) is a no-op. We could just remove the if statement here. list_for_each_entry(dev, &video->video_device_list, entry) { acpi_video_device_lcd_query_levels(dev, &levels); } But then it's not clear to me the point of this loop is? 1660 } 1661 mutex_unlock(&video->device_list_lock); 1662 } regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in