Smatch complains that this code dereferences "entry" before checking whether it's NULL on the next line. Fortunately, rb_entry() will never return NULL so it doesn't cause a problem. We can clean up the NULL checking a bit to silence the warning and make the code more clear. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- My patch does not change run-time, but it's possible that the original code was buggy and I missed it. fs/btrfs/qgroup.c | 12 ++++-------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c b/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c index 580899bdb991..a7ae2f18f486 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c @@ -3417,24 +3417,20 @@ static int qgroup_unreserve_range(struct btrfs_inode *inode, { struct rb_node *node; struct rb_node *next; - struct ulist_node *entry = NULL; + struct ulist_node *entry; int ret = 0; node = reserved->range_changed.root.rb_node; + if (!node) + return 0; while (node) { entry = rb_entry(node, struct ulist_node, rb_node); if (entry->val < start) node = node->rb_right; - else if (entry) - node = node->rb_left; else - break; + node = node->rb_left; } - /* Empty changeset */ - if (!entry) - return 0; - if (entry->val > start && rb_prev(&entry->rb_node)) entry = rb_entry(rb_prev(&entry->rb_node), struct ulist_node, rb_node); -- 2.28.0