Hello Daniel Mack, The patch 5fc8dd5c84fc: "kdbus: add connection, queue handling and message validation code" from Sep 11, 2014, leads to the following static checker warning: ipc/kdbus/connection.c:2000 kdbus_cmd_send() warn: 'cancel_fd' isn't an ERR_PTR ipc/kdbus/connection.c 1998 if (argv[1].item) { 1999 cancel_fd = fget(argv[1].item->fds[0]); ^^^^ fget() returns NULL on error. 2000 if (IS_ERR(cancel_fd)) { 2001 ret = PTR_ERR(cancel_fd); 2002 cancel_fd = NULL; 2003 goto exit; 2004 } 2005 2006 if (!cancel_fd->f_op->poll) { 2007 ret = -EINVAL; 2008 goto exit; 2009 } 2010 } 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