[ This wasn't really your bug, but maybe you know the code? -dan ] Hello Chanwoo Choi, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 3f79a3fb5f41: "extcon: palmas: Use devm_extcon_dev_allocate for extcon_dev" from Apr 21, 2014, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/extcon/extcon-palmas.c:196 palmas_usb_probe() error: we previously assumed 'node' could be null (see line 157) drivers/extcon/extcon-palmas.c 156 157 if (node && !pdata) { ^^^^ Checked. 158 palmas_usb->wakeup = of_property_read_bool(node, "ti,wakeup"); 159 palmas_usb->enable_id_detection = of_property_read_bool(node, 160 "ti,enable-id-detection"); 161 palmas_usb->enable_vbus_detection = of_property_read_bool(node, 162 "ti,enable-vbus-detection"); 163 } else { 164 palmas_usb->wakeup = true; 165 palmas_usb->enable_id_detection = true; 166 palmas_usb->enable_vbus_detection = true; 167 168 if (pdata) 169 palmas_usb->wakeup = pdata->wakeup; 170 } 171 172 palmas->usb = palmas_usb; 173 palmas_usb->palmas = palmas; 174 175 palmas_usb->dev = &pdev->dev; 176 177 palmas_usb->id_otg_irq = regmap_irq_get_virq(palmas->irq_data, 178 PALMAS_ID_OTG_IRQ); 179 palmas_usb->id_irq = regmap_irq_get_virq(palmas->irq_data, 180 PALMAS_ID_IRQ); 181 palmas_usb->vbus_otg_irq = regmap_irq_get_virq(palmas->irq_data, 182 PALMAS_VBUS_OTG_IRQ); 183 palmas_usb->vbus_irq = regmap_irq_get_virq(palmas->irq_data, 184 PALMAS_VBUS_IRQ); 185 186 palmas_usb_wakeup(palmas, palmas_usb->wakeup); 187 188 platform_set_drvdata(pdev, palmas_usb); 189 190 palmas_usb->edev = devm_extcon_dev_allocate(&pdev->dev, 191 palmas_extcon_cable); 192 if (IS_ERR(palmas_usb->edev)) { 193 dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to allocate extcon device\n"); 194 return -ENOMEM; 195 } 196 palmas_usb->edev->name = kstrdup(node->name, GFP_KERNEL); ^^^^^^^^^^ Dereferenced without a check. 197 palmas_usb->edev->dev.parent = palmas_usb->dev; 198 palmas_usb->edev->mutually_exclusive = mutually_exclusive; 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