Hello Mauro Carvalho Chehab, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch a7d44baaed0a: "[media] cx23885-dvb: Remove a dirty hack that would require DVBv3" from Dec 26, 2011, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/media/video/cx23885/cx23885-dvb.c +135 cx23885_dvb_gate_ctrl() error: we previously assumed 'fe' could be null (see line 128) drivers/media/video/cx23885/cx23885-dvb.c 127 128 if (fe && fe->dvb.frontend && fe->dvb.frontend->ops.i2c_gate_ctrl) ^^ Old condition. 129 fe->dvb.frontend->ops.i2c_gate_ctrl(fe->dvb.frontend, open); 130 131 /* 132 * FIXME: Improve this path to avoid calling the 133 * cx23885_dvb_set_frontend() every time it passes here. 134 */ 135 cx23885_dvb_set_frontend(fe->dvb.frontend); ^^^^ New dereference. 136 } 137 regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html