Hello Trond Myklebust, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch b4a2cf76ab7c: "NFSv4: Fix a regression against the FreeBSD server" from Jul 17, 2013, leads to the following Smatch complaint: fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c:1103 encode_attrs() error: we previously assumed 'label' could be null (see line 1059) fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c 1058 } 1059 if (label) { ^^^^^ New check. 1060 len += 4 + 4 + 4 + (XDR_QUADLEN(label->len) << 2); 1061 bmval[2] |= FATTR4_WORD2_SECURITY_LABEL; 1062 } 1063 1064 if (bmval[2] != 0) 1065 bmval_len = 3; 1066 else if (bmval[1] != 0) 1067 bmval_len = 2; 1068 else 1069 bmval_len = 1; 1070 [snip] 1094 if (bmval[1] & FATTR4_WORD1_TIME_MODIFY_SET) { 1095 if (iap->ia_valid & ATTR_MTIME_SET) { 1096 *p++ = cpu_to_be32(NFS4_SET_TO_CLIENT_TIME); 1097 p = xdr_encode_hyper(p, (s64)iap->ia_mtime.tv_sec); 1098 *p++ = cpu_to_be32(iap->ia_mtime.tv_nsec); 1099 } else 1100 *p++ = cpu_to_be32(NFS4_SET_TO_SERVER_TIME); 1101 } 1102 if (bmval[2] & FATTR4_WORD2_SECURITY_LABEL) { 1103 *p++ = cpu_to_be32(label->lfs); ^^^^^^^^^^ Old dereference. 1104 *p++ = cpu_to_be32(label->pi); 1105 *p++ = cpu_to_be32(label->len); regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html