Hello Jens Axboe, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 4941115bef2b: "blk-mq-tag: cleanup the normal/reserved tag allocation" from Jan 13, 2017, leads to the following Smatch complaint: block/blk-mq-tag.c:142 blk_mq_get_tag() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'data->hctx' (see line 102) block/blk-mq-tag.c 101 { 102 struct blk_mq_tags *tags = blk_mq_tags_from_data(data); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ We added a new "data->hctx" dereference here. 103 struct sbitmap_queue *bt; 104 struct sbq_wait_state *ws; 105 DEFINE_WAIT(wait); 106 unsigned int tag_offset; 107 int tag; 108 109 if (data->flags & BLK_MQ_REQ_RESERVED) { 110 if (unlikely(!tags->nr_reserved_tags)) { 111 WARN_ON_ONCE(1); 112 return BLK_MQ_TAG_FAIL; 113 } 114 bt = &tags->breserved_tags; 115 tag_offset = 0; 116 } else { 117 bt = &tags->bitmap_tags; 118 tag_offset = tags->nr_reserved_tags; 119 } 120 121 tag = __blk_mq_get_tag(data->hctx, bt); 122 if (tag != -1) 123 goto found_tag; 124 125 if (data->flags & BLK_MQ_REQ_NOWAIT) 126 return BLK_MQ_TAG_FAIL; 127 128 ws = bt_wait_ptr(bt, data->hctx); 129 do { 130 prepare_to_wait(&ws->wait, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); 131 132 tag = __blk_mq_get_tag(data->hctx, bt); 133 if (tag != -1) 134 break; 135 136 /* 137 * We're out of tags on this hardware queue, kick any 138 * pending IO submits before going to sleep waiting for 139 * some to complete. Note that hctx can be NULL here for 140 * reserved tag allocation. 141 */ 142 if (data->hctx) We're in a loop here so it's possible we don't need to check the first item in the list, but it's kind of new so I thought I would forward the message anyway even though it might be a false positive. 143 blk_mq_run_hw_queue(data->hctx, false); 144 regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html