Hello Lad Prabhakar, Commit d7d72dae81d5 ("media: rzg2l-cru: Retrieve virtual channel information") from Oct 18, 2024 (linux-next), leads to the following Smatch static checker warning: drivers/media/platform/renesas/rzg2l-cru/rzg2l-video.c:322 rzg2l_cru_get_virtual_channel() error: 'remote_pad' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR() drivers/media/platform/renesas/rzg2l-cru/rzg2l-video.c 315 static int rzg2l_cru_get_virtual_channel(struct rzg2l_cru_dev *cru) 316 { 317 struct v4l2_mbus_frame_desc fd = { }; 318 struct media_pad *remote_pad; 319 int ret; 320 321 remote_pad = media_pad_remote_pad_unique(&cru->ip.pads[RZG2L_CRU_IP_SINK]); Does media_pad_remote_pad_unique() need error checking? --> 322 ret = v4l2_subdev_call(cru->ip.remote, pad, get_frame_desc, remote_pad->index, &fd); 323 if (ret < 0 && ret != -ENOIOCTLCMD) { 324 dev_err(cru->dev, "get_frame_desc failed on IP remote subdev\n"); 325 return ret; 326 } 327 /* If remote subdev does not implement .get_frame_desc default to VC0. */ 328 if (ret == -ENOIOCTLCMD) 329 return 0; 330 331 if (fd.type != V4L2_MBUS_FRAME_DESC_TYPE_CSI2) { 332 dev_err(cru->dev, "get_frame_desc returned invalid bus type %d\n", fd.type); 333 return -EINVAL; 334 } 335 336 if (!fd.num_entries) { 337 dev_err(cru->dev, "get_frame_desc returned zero entries\n"); 338 return -EINVAL; 339 } 340 341 return fd.entry[0].bus.csi2.vc; 342 } regards, dan carpenter