Hello Sachin Prabhu, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 8830d7e07a5e: "cifs: use standard token parser for mount options" from Mar 23, 2012, leads to the following Smatch complaint: fs/cifs/connect.c:1607 cifs_parse_mount_options() error: we previously assumed 'value' could be null (see line 1568) fs/cifs/connect.c 1567 value = strchr(data, '='); 1568 if (value != NULL) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Check. 1569 *value++ = '\0'; 1570 1571 /* Set tmp_end to end of the string */ 1572 tmp_end = (char *) value + strlen(value); ^^^^^ We can't run strlen() on NULL pointers. 1573 1574 /* Check if following character is the deliminator regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html