Hello Jon Ringle, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 04fbfce7a222: "net: Microchip encx24j600 driver" from Oct 1, 2015, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600.c:313 encx24j600_tx_complete() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'priv->tx_skb' (see line 307) drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600.c 306 307 dev->stats.tx_bytes += priv->tx_skb->len; ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Unchecked dereference. 308 309 encx24j600_clr_bits(priv, EIR, TXIF | TXABTIF); 310 311 netif_dbg(priv, tx_done, dev, "TX Done%s\n", err ? ": Err" : ""); 312 313 if (priv->tx_skb) { ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Too late. 314 dev_kfree_skb(priv->tx_skb); 315 priv->tx_skb = NULL; 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