Hello Marcelo Ricardo Leitner, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 56ef9c909b40: "vxlan: Move socket initialization to within rtnl scope" from Mar 18, 2015, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/net/vxlan.c:2267 vxlan_stop() error: we previously assumed 'vs' could be null (see line 2257) drivers/net/vxlan.c 2256 2257 if (vs && vxlan_addr_multicast(&vxlan->default_dst.remote_ip) && ^^ Existing code assumed "vs" could be NULL. 2258 !vxlan_group_used(vn, vxlan)) { 2259 ret = vxlan_igmp_leave(vxlan); 2260 if (ret) 2261 return ret; 2262 } 2263 2264 del_timer_sync(&vxlan->age_timer); 2265 2266 vxlan_flush(vxlan); 2267 vxlan_sock_release(vs); ^^ Patch adds new unchecked dereference. 2268 2269 return ret; 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