Before the testing, we already passed it to rxe_mr_copy() where mr could be dereferenced. so this checking is not exactly correct. I tried to figure out the details how/when mr could be NULL, but failed at last. Add a WARN_ON(!mr) to that path to tell us more when it happends. Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c index ed5a09e86417..218c14fb07c6 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c @@ -778,6 +778,7 @@ static enum resp_states read_reply(struct rxe_qp *qp, if (res->state == rdatm_res_state_new) { if (!res->replay) { mr = qp->resp.mr; + WARN_ON(!mr); qp->resp.mr = NULL; } else { mr = rxe_recheck_mr(qp, res->read.rkey); @@ -811,8 +812,7 @@ static enum resp_states read_reply(struct rxe_qp *qp, rxe_mr_copy(mr, res->read.va, payload_addr(&ack_pkt), payload, RXE_FROM_MR_OBJ); - if (mr) - rxe_put(mr); + rxe_put(mr); if (bth_pad(&ack_pkt)) { u8 *pad = payload_addr(&ack_pkt) + payload; -- 2.31.1