Hello Namjae Jeon, The patch 74d7970febf7: "ksmbd: fix racy issue from using ->d_parent and ->d_name" from Apr 21, 2023, leads to the following Smatch static checker warning: fs/smb/server/vfs.c:1159 ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_locked() info: return a literal instead of 'err' fs/smb/server/vfs.c 1149 int ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_locked(struct ksmbd_work *work, char *name, 1150 unsigned int flags, struct path *path, 1151 bool caseless) 1152 { 1153 struct ksmbd_share_config *share_conf = work->tcon->share_conf; 1154 int err; 1155 struct path parent_path; 1156 1157 err = ksmbd_vfs_path_lookup_locked(share_conf, name, flags, path); 1158 if (!err) --> 1159 return err; ^^^^^^^^^^^ This used to be a "return 0;". Now it looks like a reversed if statement bug now where people accidentally include a ! in the if statement. I spotted a reversed if statement in someone's code yesterday so that's not a super uncommon bug, hence this unpublished static checker warning. Cifs code as a few of these. fs/smb/client/file.c:1723 cifs_getlk() info: return a literal instead of 'rc' fs/smb/client/file.c:1739 cifs_getlk() info: return a literal instead of 'rc' fs/smb/client/netmisc.c:171 cifs_convert_address() info: return a literal instead of 'rc' 1160 1161 if (caseless) { 1162 char *filepath; 1163 size_t path_len, remain_len; 1164 1165 filepath = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL); 1166 if (!filepath) 1167 return -ENOMEM; regards, dan carpenter