Hello Dan Streetman, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch ed70b479c2c0: "crypto: nx - add hardware 842 crypto comp alg" from May 7, 2015, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/crypto/nx/nx-842-crypto.c:301 nx842_crypto_compress() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'tfm' (see line 292) drivers/crypto/nx/nx-842-crypto.c 288 static int nx842_crypto_compress(struct crypto_tfm *tfm, 289 const u8 *src, unsigned int slen, 290 u8 *dst, unsigned int *dlen) 291 { 292 struct nx842_crypto_ctx *ctx = crypto_tfm_ctx(tfm); ^^^ Dereference. 293 struct nx842_crypto_header *hdr = &ctx->header; 294 struct nx842_crypto_param p; 295 struct nx842_constraints c; 296 unsigned int groups, hdrsize, h; 297 int ret, n; 298 bool add_header; 299 u16 ignore = 0; 300 301 if (!tfm || !src || !slen || !dst || !dlen) ^^^ Checked for NULL. 302 return -EINVAL; 303 The decompress function has the same warning: drivers/crypto/nx/nx-842-crypto.c:486 nx842_crypto_decompress() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'tfm' (see line 478) regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html