Hello majd@xxxxxxxxxxxx, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 0fb2ed66a14c: "IB/mlx5: Add create and destroy functionality for Raw Packet QP" from Jan 14, 2016, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c:1629 mlx5_ib_create_qp() error: we previously assumed 'pd' could be null (see line 1616) drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c 1615 1616 if (pd) { ^^ Check for NULL. 1617 dev = to_mdev(pd->device); 1618 } else { 1619 /* being cautious here */ 1620 if (init_attr->qp_type != IB_QPT_XRC_TGT && 1621 init_attr->qp_type != MLX5_IB_QPT_REG_UMR) { 1622 pr_warn("%s: no PD for transport %s\n", __func__, 1623 ib_qp_type_str(init_attr->qp_type)); 1624 return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); 1625 } 1626 dev = to_mdev(to_mxrcd(init_attr->xrcd)->ibxrcd.device); 1627 1628 if (init_attr->qp_type == IB_QPT_RAW_PACKET) { 1629 if (!pd->uobject) { ^^^^^^^^^^^ Patch adds new NULL dereferences. 1630 mlx5_ib_dbg(dev, "Raw Packet QP is not supported for kernel consumers\n"); 1631 return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html