Hello Suzuki K Poulose, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 21d26b905c05: "coresight: etm: Clean up device specific data" from May 22, 2019, leads to the following Smatch complaint: ./drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm3x.c:460 etm_get_trace_id() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'drvdata' (see line 458) ./drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm3x.c 457 int trace_id = -1; 458 struct device *etm_dev = drvdata->csdev->dev.parent; ^^^^^^^^^ New dereference 459 460 if (!drvdata) ^^^^^^^^ Checked too late. Delete the check? 461 goto out; 462 regards, dan carpenter