Hello Rahul Lakkireddy, The patch 578b46b9383c: "cxgb4: add common api support for configuring filters" from Sep 20, 2016, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_filter.c:537 __cxgb4_set_filter() warn: we tested 'f->valid' before and it was 'false' drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_filter.c 512 /* Check to make sure that provided filter index is not 513 * already in use by someone else 514 */ 515 f = &adapter->tids.ftid_tab[filter_id]; 516 if (f->valid) 517 return -EBUSY; If valid is set, then we return -EBUSY. 518 519 fidx = filter_id + adapter->tids.ftid_base; 520 ret = cxgb4_set_ftid(&adapter->tids, filter_id, 521 fs->type ? PF_INET6 : PF_INET); 522 if (ret) 523 return ret; 524 525 /* Check to make sure the filter requested is writable ... */ 526 ret = writable_filter(f); 527 if (ret) { 528 /* Clear the bits we have set above */ 529 cxgb4_clear_ftid(&adapter->tids, filter_id, 530 fs->type ? PF_INET6 : PF_INET); 531 return ret; 532 } 533 534 /* Clear out any old resources being used by the filter before 535 * we start constructing the new filter. 536 */ 537 if (f->valid) 538 clear_filter(adapter, f); So probably these lines can be removed? 539 540 /* Convert the filter specification into our internal format. 541 * We copy the PF/VF specification into the Outer VLAN field 542 * here so the rest of the code -- including the interface to 543 * the firmware -- doesn't have to constantly do these checks. 544 */ 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