Hello George Cherian, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch c694b233295b: "crypto: cavium - Add the Virtual Function driver for CPT" from Feb 7, 2017, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/crypto/cavium/cpt/cptvf_main.c:899 cptvf_remove() error: we previously assumed 'cptvf' could be null (see line 895) drivers/crypto/cavium/cpt/cptvf_main.c 894 895 if (!cptvf) ^^^^^ Check for NULL. 896 dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Invalid CPT-VF device\n"); 897 898 /* Convey DOWN to PF */ 899 if (cptvf_send_vf_down(cptvf)) { ^^^^^ Oops inside function. 900 dev_err(&pdev->dev, "PF not responding to DOWN msg"); 901 } else { regards, dan carpenter