Hello Jinshan Xiong, The patch 1e1db2a97be5: "staging: lustre: clio: Revise read ahead implementation" from Oct 2, 2016, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_io.c:611 lov_io_read_ahead() error: 'sub' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR() drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_io.c 589 static int lov_io_read_ahead(const struct lu_env *env, 590 const struct cl_io_slice *ios, 591 pgoff_t start, struct cl_read_ahead *ra) 592 { 593 struct lov_io *lio = cl2lov_io(env, ios); 594 struct lov_object *loo = lio->lis_object; 595 struct cl_object *obj = lov2cl(loo); 596 struct lov_layout_raid0 *r0 = lov_r0(loo); 597 unsigned int pps; /* pages per stripe */ 598 struct lov_io_sub *sub; 599 pgoff_t ra_end; 600 loff_t suboff; 601 int stripe; 602 int rc; 603 604 stripe = lov_stripe_number(loo->lo_lsm, cl_offset(obj, start)); 605 if (unlikely(!r0->lo_sub[stripe])) 606 return -EIO; 607 608 sub = lov_sub_get(env, lio, stripe); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Do we need error handling here? 609 610 lov_stripe_offset(loo->lo_lsm, cl_offset(obj, start), stripe, &suboff); 611 rc = cl_io_read_ahead(sub->sub_env, sub->sub_io, 612 cl_index(lovsub2cl(r0->lo_sub[stripe]), suboff), 613 ra); 614 lov_sub_put(sub); 615 regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel