Hello Woojung.Huh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 55d7de9de6c3: "Microchip's LAN7800 family USB 2/3 to 10/100/1000 Ethernet device driver" from Jul 30, 2015, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c:2282 tx_complete() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'skb' (see line 2249) drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c 2248 struct sk_buff *skb = (struct sk_buff *)urb->context; 2249 struct skb_data *entry = (struct skb_data *)skb->cb; ^^^^^^^ Dereference. 2250 struct lan78xx_net *dev = entry->dev; 2251 2252 if (urb->status == 0) { 2253 dev->net->stats.tx_packets++; 2254 dev->net->stats.tx_bytes += entry->length; 2255 } else { 2256 dev->net->stats.tx_errors++; 2257 2258 switch (urb->status) { 2259 case -EPIPE: 2260 lan78xx_defer_kevent(dev, EVENT_TX_HALT); 2261 break; 2262 2263 /* software-driven interface shutdown */ 2264 case -ECONNRESET: 2265 case -ESHUTDOWN: 2266 break; 2267 2268 case -EPROTO: 2269 case -ETIME: 2270 case -EILSEQ: 2271 netif_stop_queue(dev->net); 2272 break; 2273 default: 2274 netif_dbg(dev, tx_err, dev->net, 2275 "tx err %d\n", entry->urb->status); 2276 break; 2277 } 2278 } 2279 2280 usb_autopm_put_interface_async(dev->intf); 2281 2282 if (skb) ^^^ Check too late. 2283 defer_bh(dev, skb, &dev->txq, tx_done); 2284 } 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