Hello Janakarajan Natarajan, The patch edd303ff0e9e: "crypto: ccp - Add DOWNLOAD_FIRMWARE SEV command" from May 25, 2018, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/crypto/ccp/psp-dev.c:397 sev_get_api_version() error: uninitialized symbol 'error'. drivers/crypto/ccp/psp-dev.c 389 static int sev_get_api_version(void) 390 { 391 struct sev_user_data_status *status; 392 int error, ret; 393 394 status = &psp_master->status_cmd_buf; 395 ret = sev_platform_status(status, &error); 396 if (ret) { 397 dev_err(psp_master->dev, 398 "SEV: failed to get status. Error: %#x\n", error); sev_platform_status() could be defined as a no-op or there is an error path where *error isn't set. 399 return 1; 400 } 401 402 psp_master->api_major = status->api_major; 403 psp_master->api_minor = status->api_minor; 404 psp_master->build = status->build; 405 406 return 0; 407 } regards, dan carpenter