Hello Gabriel Krisman Bertazi, The patch 3ae72562ad91: "ext4: optimize case-insensitive lookups" from Jun 19, 2019, leads to the following static checker warning: fs/ext4/namei.c:1311 ext4_fname_setup_ci_filename() warn: 'cf_name->len' unsigned <= 0 fs/ext4/namei.c 1296 void ext4_fname_setup_ci_filename(struct inode *dir, const struct qstr *iname, 1297 struct fscrypt_str *cf_name) 1298 { 1299 if (!IS_CASEFOLDED(dir)) { 1300 cf_name->name = NULL; 1301 return; 1302 } 1303 1304 cf_name->name = kmalloc(EXT4_NAME_LEN, GFP_NOFS); 1305 if (!cf_name->name) 1306 return; 1307 1308 cf_name->len = utf8_casefold(EXT4_SB(dir->i_sb)->s_encoding, 1309 iname, cf_name->name, 1310 EXT4_NAME_LEN); utf8_casefold() returns negative error codes 1311 if (cf_name->len <= 0) { but "cf_name->len" is a u32. 1312 kfree(cf_name->name); 1313 cf_name->name = NULL; 1314 } 1315 } regards, dan carpenter