Hello Atul Gupta, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 36bedb3f2e5b: "crypto: chtls - Inline TLS record Tx" from Mar 31, 2018, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/crypto/chelsio/chtls/chtls_io.c:1156 chtls_sendpage() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'skb' (see line 1155) drivers/crypto/chelsio/chtls/chtls_io.c 1154 1155 copy = mss - skb->len; ^^^^^^^^ Dereference 1156 if (!skb || (ULP_SKB_CB(skb)->flags & ULPCB_FLAG_NO_APPEND) || ^^^^ Check 1157 copy <= 0) { 1158 new_buf: regards, dan carpenter