Hello Pavel Shilovsky, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch f9c6e234c3ca: "CIFS: Move readpage code to ops struct" from Sep 18, 2012, leads to the following Smatch complaint: fs/cifs/file.c:2954 cifs_read() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'tcon->ses' (see line 2932) fs/cifs/file.c 2931 tcon = tlink_tcon(open_file->tlink); 2932 server = tcon->ses->server; ^^^^^^^^^^^ New dereference. 2933 2934 if (!server->ops->sync_read) { 2935 free_xid(xid); 2936 return -ENOSYS; 2937 } 2938 2939 if (cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_RWPIDFORWARD) 2940 pid = open_file->pid; 2941 else 2942 pid = current->tgid; 2943 2944 if ((file->f_flags & O_ACCMODE) == O_WRONLY) 2945 cFYI(1, "attempting read on write only file instance"); 2946 2947 for (total_read = 0, cur_offset = read_data; read_size > total_read; 2948 total_read += bytes_read, cur_offset += bytes_read) { 2949 current_read_size = min_t(uint, read_size - total_read, rsize); 2950 /* 2951 * For windows me and 9x we do not want to request more than it 2952 * negotiated since it will refuse the read then. 2953 */ 2954 if ((tcon->ses) && !(tcon->ses->capabilities & ^^^^^^^^^ Old check. 2955 tcon->ses->server->vals->cap_large_files)) { 2956 current_read_size = min_t(uint, current_read_size, 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