Hello Andrew Boyer, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch d38eb801aa14: "IB/rxe: Unblock loopback by moving skb_out increment" from Nov 23, 2016, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_net.c:458 send() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'pkt->qp' (see line 441) drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_net.c 440 nskb->destructor = rxe_skb_tx_dtor; 441 nskb->sk = pkt->qp->sk->sk; ^^^^^^^^^ Dereference. 442 443 if (av->network_type == RDMA_NETWORK_IPV4) { 444 err = ip_local_out(dev_net(skb_dst(skb)->dev), nskb->sk, nskb); 445 } else if (av->network_type == RDMA_NETWORK_IPV6) { 446 err = ip6_local_out(dev_net(skb_dst(skb)->dev), nskb->sk, nskb); 447 } else { 448 pr_err("Unknown layer 3 protocol: %d\n", av->network_type); 449 kfree_skb(nskb); 450 return -EINVAL; 451 } 452 453 if (unlikely(net_xmit_eval(err))) { 454 pr_debug("error sending packet: %d\n", err); 455 return -EAGAIN; 456 } 457 458 if (pkt->qp) ^^^^^^^ New check. 459 atomic_inc(&pkt->qp->skb_out); 460 kfree_skb(skb); 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