Hello Lv Zheng, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 995751025572: "ACPICA: Linuxize: Export debugger files to Linux" from Oct 19, 2015, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/acpi/acpica/dbxface.c:298 acpi_db_single_step() error: we previously assumed 'walk_state->control_state' could be null (see line 252) drivers/acpi/acpica/dbxface.c 251 if (parent_op) { 252 if ((walk_state->control_state) && ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Checked. 253 (walk_state->control_state->common.state == 254 ACPI_CONTROL_PREDICATE_EXECUTING)) { 255 /* 256 * We are executing the predicate of an IF or WHILE statement 257 * Search upwards for the containing IF or WHILE so that the 258 * entire predicate can be displayed. 259 */ 260 while (parent_op) { 261 if ((parent_op->common.aml_opcode == 262 AML_IF_OP) 263 || (parent_op->common.aml_opcode == 264 AML_WHILE_OP)) { 265 display_op = parent_op; 266 break; 267 } 268 parent_op = parent_op->common.parent; 269 } 270 } else { 271 while (parent_op) { 272 if ((parent_op->common.aml_opcode == 273 AML_IF_OP) 274 || (parent_op->common.aml_opcode == 275 AML_ELSE_OP) 276 || (parent_op->common.aml_opcode == 277 AML_SCOPE_OP) 278 || (parent_op->common.aml_opcode == 279 AML_METHOD_OP) 280 || (parent_op->common.aml_opcode == 281 AML_WHILE_OP)) { 282 break; 283 } 284 display_op = parent_op; 285 parent_op = parent_op->common.parent; 286 } 287 } 288 } 289 290 /* Now we can display it */ 291 292 #ifdef ACPI_DISASSEMBLER 293 acpi_dm_disassemble(walk_state, display_op, ACPI_UINT32_MAX); 294 #endif 295 296 if ((op->common.aml_opcode == AML_IF_OP) || 297 (op->common.aml_opcode == AML_WHILE_OP)) { 298 if (walk_state->control_state->common.value) { ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Not checked. 299 acpi_os_printf 300 ("Predicate = [True], IF block was executed\n"); regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html