Hello George Zhang, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 06164d2b72aa: "VMCI: queue pairs implementation." from Jan 8, 2013, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:3356 vmci_qpair_dequev() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'qpair' (see line 3354) drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c 3353 3354 qp_lock(qpair); ^^^^^^ dereference. 3355 3356 if (!qpair || !iov) ^^^^^ test. 3357 return VMCI_ERROR_INVALID_ARGS; 3358 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