Hello Jens Axboe, The patch f3fafe4103bd: "io_uring: add support for sqe links" from May 10, 2019, leads to the following static checker warning: fs/io_uring.c:623 io_req_link_next() error: potential NULL dereference 'nxt'. fs/io_uring.c 614 static void io_req_link_next(struct io_kiocb *req) 615 { 616 struct io_kiocb *nxt; 617 618 nxt = list_first_entry_or_null(&req->link_list, struct io_kiocb, list); 619 list_del(&nxt->list); ^^^^^^^^^ The warning is a false positive but this is a NULL dereference. 620 if (!list_empty(&req->link_list)) { 621 INIT_LIST_HEAD(&nxt->link_list); ^^^^^ False positive. 622 list_splice(&req->link_list, &nxt->link_list); 623 nxt->flags |= REQ_F_LINK; 624 } 625 626 INIT_WORK(&nxt->work, io_sq_wq_submit_work); ^^^^^^^^^^ 627 queue_work(req->ctx->sqo_wq, &nxt->work); ^^^^^^^^^^ Other bugs. 628 } regards, dan carpenter