Hello Shyam Prasad N, The patch 27bfeaa7b929: "cifs: allow dumping keys for directories too" from Jun 16, 2023 (linux-next), leads to the following Smatch static checker warning: fs/smb/client/ioctl.c:481 cifs_ioctl() error: 'tlink' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR() fs/smb/client/ioctl.c 469 case CIFS_DUMP_FULL_KEY: 470 /* 471 * Dump encryption keys (handles any key sizes) 472 */ 473 if (pSMBFile == NULL) 474 break; 475 if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) { 476 rc = -EACCES; 477 break; 478 } 479 cifs_sb = CIFS_SB(inode->i_sb); 480 tlink = cifs_sb_tlink(cifs_sb); cifs_sb_tlink() requires error checking. --> 481 tcon = tlink_tcon(tlink); 482 rc = cifs_dump_full_key(tcon, (void __user *)arg); 483 cifs_put_tlink(tlink); 484 break; 485 case CIFS_IOC_NOTIFY: 486 if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) { 487 /* Notify can only be done on directories */ 488 rc = -EOPNOTSUPP; 489 break; 490 } 491 cifs_sb = CIFS_SB(inode->i_sb); 492 tlink = cifs_sb_tlink(cifs_sb); 493 if (IS_ERR(tlink)) { 494 rc = PTR_ERR(tlink); 495 break; 496 } 497 tcon = tlink_tcon(tlink); 498 if (tcon && tcon->ses->server->ops->notify) { 499 rc = tcon->ses->server->ops->notify(xid, 500 filep, (void __user *)arg, 501 false /* no ret data */); 502 cifs_dbg(FYI, "ioctl notify rc %d\n", rc); 503 } else 504 rc = -EOPNOTSUPP; 505 cifs_put_tlink(tlink); 506 break; regards, dan carpenter