Hello, Smatch complains about a potential null dereference but I don't know how to fix it. Could you take a look? drivers/leds/leds-88pm860x.c +269 pm860x_led_probe(28) error: potential null derefence 'pdata'. 256 if (pdev->dev.parent->platform_data) { 257 pm860x_pdata = pdev->dev.parent->platform_data; 258 pdata = pm860x_pdata->led; 259 } else 260 pdata = NULL; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ We set pdata to NULL here. 261 262 data = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pm860x_led), GFP_KERNEL); 263 if (data == NULL) 264 return -ENOMEM; 265 strncpy(data->name, res->name, MFD_NAME_SIZE); 266 dev_set_drvdata(&pdev->dev, data); 267 data->chip = chip; 268 data->i2c = (chip->id == CHIP_PM8606) ? chip->client : chip->companion; 269 data->iset = pdata->iset; ^^^^^^^^^^^^ We dereference it here. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html