Hello Songjun Wu, The patch 93d4a26c3dab: "[media] atmel-isc: add the isc pipeline function" from Jan 24, 2017, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/media/platform/atmel/atmel-isc.c:1494 isc_formats_init() error: we previously assumed 'fmt' could be null (see line 1480) drivers/media/platform/atmel/atmel-isc.c 1459 static int isc_formats_init(struct isc_device *isc) 1460 { 1461 struct isc_format *fmt; 1462 struct v4l2_subdev *subdev = isc->current_subdev->sd; 1463 unsigned int num_fmts, i, j; 1464 struct v4l2_subdev_mbus_code_enum mbus_code = { 1465 .which = V4L2_SUBDEV_FORMAT_ACTIVE, 1466 }; 1467 1468 fmt = &isc_formats[0]; 1469 for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(isc_formats); i++) { 1470 fmt->isc_support = false; 1471 fmt->sd_support = false; 1472 1473 fmt++; 1474 } 1475 1476 while (!v4l2_subdev_call(subdev, pad, enum_mbus_code, 1477 NULL, &mbus_code)) { 1478 mbus_code.index++; 1479 fmt = find_format_by_code(mbus_code.code, &i); 1480 if (!fmt) ^^^ Check for NULL. 1481 continue; 1482 1483 fmt->sd_support = true; 1484 1485 if (i <= RAW_FMT_IND_END) { 1486 for (j = ISC_FMT_IND_START; j <= ISC_FMT_IND_END; j++) 1487 isc_formats[j].isc_support = true; 1488 1489 isc->raw_fmt = fmt; 1490 } 1491 } 1492 We probably want to set: fmt = &isc_formats[0]; before the start of this loop. 1493 for (i = 0, num_fmts = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(isc_formats); i++) { 1494 if (fmt->isc_support || fmt->sd_support) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Unchecked dereference. 1495 num_fmts++; 1496 1497 fmt++; 1498 } 1499 1500 if (!num_fmts) 1501 return -ENXIO; regards, dan carpenter