We check for NULL pointers after dereferencing so it's too late. Oddly enough, Smatch misses this code but complains about the caller passing NULL pointers to this function: drivers/mmc/host/toshsd.c:389 toshsd_irq() error: we previously assumed 'host->cmd' could be null (see line 349) Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/toshsd.c b/drivers/mmc/host/toshsd.c index edb06d6..4666262 100644 --- a/drivers/mmc/host/toshsd.c +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/toshsd.c @@ -206,14 +206,14 @@ static irqreturn_t toshsd_thread_irq(int irq, void *dev_id) static void toshsd_cmd_irq(struct toshsd_host *host) { struct mmc_command *cmd = host->cmd; - u8 *buf = (u8 *) cmd->resp; + u8 *buf; u16 data; if (!host->cmd) { dev_warn(&host->pdev->dev, "Spurious CMD irq\n"); return; } - + buf = (u8 *)cmd->resp; host->cmd = NULL; if (cmd->flags & MMC_RSP_PRESENT && cmd->flags & MMC_RSP_136) { -- 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