Hello Namjae Jeon, Commit e2f34481b24d ("cifsd: add server-side procedures for SMB3") from Mar 16, 2021 (linux-next), leads to the following Smatch static checker warning: fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c:8864 smb3_preauth_hash_rsp() error: we previously assumed 'conn->preauth_info' could be null (see line 8844) fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c 8832 void smb3_preauth_hash_rsp(struct ksmbd_work *work) 8833 { 8834 struct ksmbd_conn *conn = work->conn; 8835 struct ksmbd_session *sess = work->sess; 8836 struct smb2_hdr *req, *rsp; 8837 8838 if (conn->dialect != SMB311_PROT_ID) 8839 return; 8840 8841 WORK_BUFFERS(work, req, rsp); 8842 8843 if (le16_to_cpu(req->Command) == SMB2_NEGOTIATE_HE && 8844 conn->preauth_info) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This checks for NULL for ksmbd_gen_preauth_integrity_hash(). 8845 ksmbd_gen_preauth_integrity_hash(conn, work->response_buf, 8846 conn->preauth_info->Preauth_HashValue); 8847 8848 if (le16_to_cpu(rsp->Command) == SMB2_SESSION_SETUP_HE && sess) { 8849 __u8 *hash_value; 8850 8851 if (conn->binding) { 8852 struct preauth_session *preauth_sess; 8853 8854 preauth_sess = ksmbd_preauth_session_lookup(conn, sess->id); 8855 if (!preauth_sess) 8856 return; 8857 hash_value = preauth_sess->Preauth_HashValue; 8858 } else { 8859 hash_value = sess->Preauth_HashValue; 8860 if (!hash_value) 8861 return; 8862 } 8863 ksmbd_gen_preauth_integrity_hash(conn, work->response_buf, ^^^^ This call doesn't. --> 8864 hash_value); 8865 } 8866 } regards, dan carpenter