Hello Alexandre Bounine, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch b6e8d4aa1110: "rapidio: add RapidIO channelized messaging driver" from Aug 2, 2016, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c:1220 riocm_ch_listen() error: we previously assumed 'ch' could be null (see line 1218) drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c 1217 ch = riocm_get_channel(ch_id); 1218 if (!ch || !riocm_cmp_exch(ch, RIO_CM_CHAN_BOUND, RIO_CM_LISTEN)) ^^^ Check. 1219 ret = -EINVAL; 1220 riocm_put_channel(ch); ^^ Unchecked dereference. 1221 return ret; 1222 } regards, dan carpenter