Hello Aurelien Aptel, The patch feeaec621c09: "cifs: multichannel: move channel selection above transport layer" from Apr 24, 2020, leads to the following static checker warning: fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c:149 smb2_hdr_assemble() error: we previously assumed 'tcon->ses' could be null (see line 133) fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c 120 shdr->ProcessId = cpu_to_le32((__u16)current->tgid); 121 122 if (!tcon) 123 goto out; 124 125 /* GLOBAL_CAP_LARGE_MTU will only be set if dialect > SMB2.02 */ 126 /* See sections 2.2.4 and 3.2.4.1.5 of MS-SMB2 */ 127 if (server && (server->capabilities & SMB2_GLOBAL_CAP_LARGE_MTU)) 128 shdr->CreditCharge = cpu_to_le16(1); 129 /* else CreditCharge MBZ */ 130 131 shdr->TreeId = tcon->tid; 132 /* Uid is not converted */ 133 if (tcon->ses) ^^^^^^^^^ Check for NULL. 134 shdr->SessionId = tcon->ses->Suid; 135 136 /* 137 * If we would set SMB2_FLAGS_DFS_OPERATIONS on open we also would have 138 * to pass the path on the Open SMB prefixed by \\server\share. 139 * Not sure when we would need to do the augmented path (if ever) and 140 * setting this flag breaks the SMB2 open operation since it is 141 * illegal to send an empty path name (without \\server\share prefix) 142 * when the DFS flag is set in the SMB open header. We could 143 * consider setting the flag on all operations other than open 144 * but it is safer to net set it for now. 145 */ 146 /* if (tcon->share_flags & SHI1005_FLAGS_DFS) 147 shdr->Flags |= SMB2_FLAGS_DFS_OPERATIONS; */ 148 149 if (server && server->sign && !smb3_encryption_required(tcon)) ^^^^ Unchecked dereference inside the function. There used to be a bunch of checks for NULL "tcon->ses" but some of them were replaces with a check for "server" instead. 150 shdr->Flags |= SMB2_FLAGS_SIGNED; 151 out: 152 return; 153 } regards, dan carpenter