[ I recently changed the checker so now it gives a new warning about this old code. ] Hello Steve French, The patch 84ceeb962665: "[CIFS] fix static checker warning" from Jun 26, 2013, leads to the following static checker warning: fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c:136 smb2_hdr_assemble() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'tcon->ses->server' (see line 120) fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c 111 /* GLOBAL_CAP_LARGE_MTU will only be set if dialect > SMB2.02 */ 112 /* See sections 2.2.4 and 3.2.4.1.5 of MS-SMB2 */ 113 if ((tcon->ses) && 114 (tcon->ses->server->capabilities & SMB2_GLOBAL_CAP_LARGE_MTU)) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Dereferenced without a check. 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) 121 hdr->SessionId = tcon->ses->Suid; 122 123 /* 124 * If we would set SMB2_FLAGS_DFS_OPERATIONS on open we also would have 125 * to pass the path on the Open SMB prefixed by \\server\share. 126 * Not sure when we would need to do the augmented path (if ever) and 127 * setting this flag breaks the SMB2 open operation since it is 128 * illegal to send an empty path name (without \\server\share prefix) 129 * when the DFS flag is set in the SMB open header. We could 130 * consider setting the flag on all operations other than open 131 * but it is safer to net set it for now. 132 */ 133 /* if (tcon->share_flags & SHI1005_FLAGS_DFS) 134 hdr->Flags |= SMB2_FLAGS_DFS_OPERATIONS; */ 135 136 if (tcon->ses && tcon->ses->server && tcon->ses->server->sign) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Checked too late. 137 hdr->Flags |= SMB2_FLAGS_SIGNED; 138 out: 139 pdu->StructureSize2 = cpu_to_le16(parmsize); 140 return; 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