Hello! This is an experimental automated report about issues detected by Coverity from a scan of next-20191031 as part of the linux-next weekly scan project: https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified lines of code (noted below) that were touched by recent commits: 2e0fef85e098 ("[SCSI] lpfc: NPIV: split ports") Coverity reported the following: *** CID 101747: Null pointer dereferences (FORWARD_NULL) /drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c: 4439 in lpfc_cmpl_els_rsp() 4433 kfree(mp); 4434 } 4435 mempool_free(mbox, phba->mbox_mem_pool); 4436 } 4437 out: 4438 if (ndlp && NLP_CHK_NODE_ACT(ndlp)) { vvv CID 101747: Null pointer dereferences (FORWARD_NULL) vvv Dereferencing null pointer "shost". 4439 spin_lock_irq(shost->host_lock); 4440 ndlp->nlp_flag &= ~(NLP_ACC_REGLOGIN | NLP_RM_DFLT_RPI); 4441 spin_unlock_irq(shost->host_lock); 4442 4443 /* If the node is not being used by another discovery thread, 4444 * and we are sending a reject, we are done with it. If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please include these lines (but double-check the "Fixes" first): Reported-by: coverity-bot <keescook+coverity-bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 101747 ("Null pointer dereferences") Fixes: 2e0fef85e098 ("[SCSI] lpfc: NPIV: split ports") Thanks for your attention! -- Coverity-bot
