Hello Shyam Prasad N, The patch fe67bd563ec2: "cifs: avoid use of global locks for high contention data" from Jul 27, 2022, leads to the following Smatch static checker warning: fs/cifs/connect.c:4641 cifs_tree_connect() warn: inconsistent returns '&tcon->tc_lock'. Locked on : 4587 Unlocked on: 4641 fs/cifs/connect.c 4570 int cifs_tree_connect(const unsigned int xid, struct cifs_tcon *tcon, const struct nls_table *nlsc) 4571 { 4572 int rc; 4573 struct TCP_Server_Info *server = tcon->ses->server; 4574 const struct smb_version_operations *ops = server->ops; 4575 struct super_block *sb = NULL; 4576 struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb; 4577 struct dfs_cache_tgt_list tl = DFS_CACHE_TGT_LIST_INIT(tl); 4578 char *tree; 4579 struct dfs_info3_param ref = {0}; 4580 4581 /* only send once per connect */ 4582 spin_lock(&tcon->tc_lock); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 4583 if (tcon->ses->ses_status != SES_GOOD || 4584 (tcon->status != TID_NEW && 4585 tcon->status != TID_NEED_TCON)) { 4586 spin_unlock(&tcon->ses->ses_lock); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Originally this used to take a lock and then unlock it again but now it unlocks a different lock. 4587 return 0; 4588 } 4589 tcon->status = TID_IN_TCON; 4590 spin_unlock(&tcon->tc_lock); 4591 regards, dan carpenter