Hello Mike Marciniszyn, The patch 46a80d62e6e0: "IB/qib, staging/rdma/hfi1: add s_hlock for use in post send" from Feb 14, 2016, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_ud.c:395 qib_make_ud_req() warn: 'irqsave:flags' is sometimes locked here and sometimes unlocked. drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_ud.c 293 } else { 294 this_cpu_inc(ibp->pmastats->n_unicast_xmit); 295 lid = ah_attr->dlid & ~((1 << ppd->lmc) - 1); 296 if (unlikely(lid == ppd->lid)) { 297 unsigned long flags; ^^^^^ 298 /* 299 * If DMAs are in progress, we can't generate 300 * a completion for the loopback packet since 301 * it would be out of order. 302 * XXX Instead of waiting, we could queue a 303 * zero length descriptor so we get a callback. 304 */ 305 if (atomic_read(&priv->s_dma_busy)) { 306 qp->s_flags |= RVT_S_WAIT_DMA; 307 goto bail; 308 } 309 qp->s_cur = next_cur; 310 local_irq_save(flags); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 311 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&qp->s_lock, flags); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Complicated no-op with the IRQ flags. 312 qib_ud_loopback(qp, wqe); 313 spin_lock_irqsave(&qp->s_lock, flags); ^^^^^ We save the flags but then we leave the scope without using them. 314 qib_send_complete(qp, wqe, IB_WC_SUCCESS); 315 goto done; 316 } 317 } 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