Hello Steve French, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 7f420cee8bd6: "[CIFS] Charge at least one credit, if server says that it supports multicredit" from Jun 23, 2013, leads to the following Smatch complaint: fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c:120 smb2_hdr_assemble() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'tcon->ses' (see line 115) fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c 114 if (tcon->ses->server->capabilities & SMB2_GLOBAL_CAP_LARGE_MTU) ^^^^^^^^^^^ New dereference. 115 hdr->CreditCharge = cpu_to_le16(1); 116 /* else CreditCharge MBZ */ 117 118 hdr->TreeId = tcon->tid; 119 /* Uid is not converted */ 120 if (tcon->ses) ^^^^^^^^^ Old check. 121 hdr->SessionId = tcon->ses->Suid; 122 /* BB check following DFS flags BB */ 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