Hello Jens Axboe, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch f2298c0403b0: "null_blk: multi queue aware block test driver" from Oct 25, 2013, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/block/null_blk.c:524 null_add_dev() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'nullb->q' (see line 523) drivers/block/null_blk.c 522 nullb->q = blk_init_queue_node(null_request_fn, &nullb->lock, home_node); 523 blk_queue_prep_rq(nullb->q, null_rq_prep_fn); ^^^^^^^^ Dereference. 524 if (nullb->q) ^^^^^^^^ Null check. 525 blk_queue_softirq_done(nullb->q, null_softirq_done_fn); 526 } 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