Hello Kent Overstreet, The patch cafe56359144: "bcache: A block layer cache" from Mar 23, 2013, leads to the following static checker warning: ./drivers/md/bcache/super.c:770 bcache_device_free() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'd->disk' (see line 766) drivers/md/bcache/super.c 762 static void bcache_device_free(struct bcache_device *d) 763 { 764 lockdep_assert_held(&bch_register_lock); 765 766 pr_info("%s stopped", d->disk->disk_name); ^^^^^^^^^ Unchecked dereference. 767 768 if (d->c) 769 bcache_device_detach(d); 770 if (d->disk && d->disk->flags & GENHD_FL_UP) ^^^^^^^ Check too late. 771 del_gendisk(d->disk); 772 if (d->disk && d->disk->queue) 773 blk_cleanup_queue(d->disk->queue); 774 if (d->disk) { 775 ida_simple_remove(&bcache_device_idx, 776 first_minor_to_idx(d->disk->first_minor)); 777 put_disk(d->disk); 778 } 779 regards, dan carpenter