Hello David Howells, The patch 108f95bfaa56: "vfs: Convert ceph to use the new mount API" from Mar 25, 2019, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/block/rbd.c:7141 do_rbd_add() warn: passing freed memory 'ctx.opt' drivers/block/rbd.c 7046 /* parse add command */ 7047 rc = rbd_add_parse_args(buf, &ctx); 7048 if (rc < 0) 7049 goto out; 7050 7051 rbdc = rbd_get_client(ctx.opt); This looks like it frees ctx.opt if rbd_client_find() returns non-NULL. 7052 if (IS_ERR(rbdc)) { 7053 rc = PTR_ERR(rbdc); 7054 goto err_out_args; 7055 } 7056 7057 /* pick the pool */ 7058 rc = ceph_pg_poolid_by_name(rbdc->client->osdc.osdmap, 7059 ctx.rbd_spec->pool_name); 7060 if (rc < 0) { 7061 if (rc == -ENOENT) 7062 pr_info("pool %s does not exist\n", ctx.rbd_spec->pool_name); 7063 goto err_out_client; 7064 } [ snip ] 7125 out: 7126 module_put(THIS_MODULE); 7127 return rc; 7128 7129 err_out_image_lock: 7130 rbd_dev_image_unlock(rbd_dev); 7131 rbd_dev_device_release(rbd_dev); 7132 err_out_image_probe: 7133 rbd_dev_image_release(rbd_dev); 7134 err_out_rbd_dev: 7135 rbd_dev_destroy(rbd_dev); 7136 err_out_client: 7137 rbd_put_client(rbdc); 7138 err_out_args: 7139 rbd_spec_put(ctx.rbd_spec); 7140 kfree(ctx.rbd_opts); 7141 ceph_destroy_options(ctx.opt); ^^^^^^^ Double free. 7142 goto out; 7143 } regards, dan carpenter