Hello YueHaibing, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 6377f787aeb9: "appletalk: Fix use-after-free in atalk_proc_exit" from Mar 1, 2019, leads to the following Smatch complaint: net/appletalk/ddp.c:1952 atalk_init() error: we previously assumed 'ddp_dl' could be null (see line 1924) net/appletalk/ddp.c 1923 ddp_dl = register_snap_client(ddp_snap_id, atalk_rcv); 1924 if (!ddp_dl) ^^^^^^^ Check 1925 printk(atalk_err_snap); 1926 1927 dev_add_pack(<alk_packet_type); 1928 dev_add_pack(&ppptalk_packet_type); 1929 1930 rc = register_netdevice_notifier(&ddp_notifier); 1931 if (rc) 1932 goto out_sock; 1933 1934 aarp_proto_init(); 1935 rc = atalk_proc_init(); 1936 if (rc) 1937 goto out_aarp; 1938 1939 rc = atalk_register_sysctl(); 1940 if (rc) 1941 goto out_proc; 1942 out: 1943 return rc; 1944 out_proc: 1945 atalk_proc_exit(); 1946 out_aarp: 1947 aarp_cleanup_module(); 1948 unregister_netdevice_notifier(&ddp_notifier); 1949 out_sock: 1950 dev_remove_pack(&ppptalk_packet_type); 1951 dev_remove_pack(<alk_packet_type); 1952 unregister_snap_client(ddp_dl); ^^^^^^ Unchecked dereference. 1953 sock_unregister(PF_APPLETALK); 1954 out_proto: regards, dan carpenter