Hello! This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by Coverity from a scan of next-20210331 as part of the linux-next 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 commits: None 5e466345291a ("net/mlx5e: IPsec: Add IPsec steering in local NIC RX") Coverity reported the following: *** CID 1503588: Error handling issues (CHECKED_RETURN) /drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec_fs.c: 323 in rx_ft_put() 317 fs_prot = &accel_esp->fs_prot[type]; 318 mutex_lock(&fs_prot->prot_mutex); 319 if (--fs_prot->refcnt) 320 goto out; 321 322 /* disconnect */ vvv CID 1503588: Error handling issues (CHECKED_RETURN) vvv Calling "mlx5e_ttc_fwd_default_dest" without checking return value (as is done elsewhere 4 out of 5 times). 323 mlx5e_ttc_fwd_default_dest(priv, fs_esp2tt(type)); 324 325 /* remove FT */ 326 rx_destroy(priv, type); 327 328 out: 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: 1503588 ("Error handling issues") Fixes: 5e466345291a ("net/mlx5e: IPsec: Add IPsec steering in local NIC RX") Thanks for your attention! -- Coverity-bot