Hello Ram Amrani, The patch ee8eaea30b13: "qed: Add support for memory registeration verbs" from Oct 1, 2016, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_roce.c:2354 qed_rdma_register_tid() error: uninitialized symbol 'fw_return_code'. drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_roce.c 2343 /* DIF */ 2344 if (params->dif_enabled) { 2345 SET_FIELD(p_ramrod->flags2, 2346 RDMA_REGISTER_TID_RAMROD_DATA_DIF_ON_HOST_FLG, 1); 2347 DMA_REGPAIR_LE(p_ramrod->dif_error_addr, 2348 params->dif_error_addr); 2349 DMA_REGPAIR_LE(p_ramrod->dif_runt_addr, params->dif_runt_addr); 2350 } 2351 2352 rc = qed_spq_post(p_hwfn, p_ent, &fw_return_code); 2353 2354 if (fw_return_code != RDMA_RETURN_OK) { This basically works even when rc is a negative error code and fw_return_code is uninitialized but hella nasty. 2355 DP_NOTICE(p_hwfn, "fw_return_code = %d\n", fw_return_code); 2356 return -EINVAL; 2357 } 2358 2359 DP_VERBOSE(p_hwfn, QED_MSG_RDMA, "Register TID, rc = %d\n", rc); 2360 return rc; 2361 } 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