Hello Ronnie Sahlberg, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 4cfa6d6563b6: "cifs: cache dirent names for cached directories" from May 3, 2022, leads to the following Smatch complaint: fs/cifs/smb2ops.c:796 open_cached_dir() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'tcon' (see line 780) fs/cifs/smb2ops.c 779 { 780 struct cifs_ses *ses = tcon->ses; ^^^^^^^^^ Dereference 781 struct TCP_Server_Info *server = ses->server; 782 struct cifs_open_parms oparms; 783 struct smb2_create_rsp *o_rsp = NULL; 784 struct smb2_query_info_rsp *qi_rsp = NULL; 785 int resp_buftype[2]; 786 struct smb_rqst rqst[2]; 787 struct kvec rsp_iov[2]; 788 struct kvec open_iov[SMB2_CREATE_IOV_SIZE]; 789 struct kvec qi_iov[1]; 790 int rc, flags = 0; 791 __le16 utf16_path = 0; /* Null - since an open of top of share */ 792 u8 oplock = SMB2_OPLOCK_LEVEL_II; 793 struct cifs_fid *pfid; 794 struct dentry *dentry; 795 796 if (tcon == NULL || tcon->nohandlecache || ^^^^^^^^^^^^ The patch adds a new NULL check, but too late. 797 is_smb1_server(tcon->ses->server)) 798 return -ENOTSUPP; regards, dan carpenter