Hello Jimmy Assarsson, The patch aec5fb2268b7: "can: kvaser_usb: Add support for Kvaser USB hydra family" from Jul 18, 2018, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_hydra.c:1035 kvaser_usb_hydra_error_frame() error: potentially dereferencing uninitialized 'cf'. drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_hydra.c 1010 skb = alloc_can_err_skb(netdev, &cf); ^^^ Assume this fails and skb is NULL. 1011 1012 if (new_state != old_state) { 1013 if (skb) { ^^^ 1014 enum can_state tx_state, rx_state; 1015 1016 tx_state = (bec.txerr >= bec.rxerr) ? 1017 new_state : CAN_STATE_ERROR_ACTIVE; 1018 rx_state = (bec.txerr <= bec.rxerr) ? 1019 new_state : CAN_STATE_ERROR_ACTIVE; 1020 1021 can_change_state(netdev, cf, tx_state, rx_state); 1022 } 1023 1024 if (new_state == CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF) { 1025 if (!priv->can.restart_ms) 1026 kvaser_usb_hydra_send_simple_cmd_async 1027 (priv, CMD_STOP_CHIP_REQ); 1028 1029 can_bus_off(netdev); 1030 } 1031 1032 if (priv->can.restart_ms && 1033 old_state >= CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF && 1034 new_state < CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF) 1035 cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_RESTARTED; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Potentially uninitialized 1036 } 1037 1038 if (!skb) { ^^^^^ 1039 stats->rx_dropped++; 1040 netdev_warn(netdev, "No memory left for err_skb\n"); 1041 return; 1042 } regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-can" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html