Hello Shaobo Xu, The patch bfcc681bd09d: "IB/hns: Fix the bug when free mr" from Nov 29, 2016, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_hw_v1.c:909 hns_roce_v1_recreate_lp_qp() error: potential null dereference 'lp_qp_work'. (kzalloc returns null) drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_hw_v1.c 891 static int hns_roce_v1_recreate_lp_qp(struct hns_roce_dev *hr_dev) 892 { 893 struct device *dev = &hr_dev->pdev->dev; 894 struct hns_roce_recreate_lp_qp_work *lp_qp_work; 895 struct hns_roce_free_mr *free_mr; 896 struct hns_roce_v1_priv *priv; 897 struct completion comp; 898 unsigned long end = 899 msecs_to_jiffies(HNS_ROCE_V1_RECREATE_LP_QP_TIMEOUT_MSECS) + jiffies; 900 901 priv = (struct hns_roce_v1_priv *)hr_dev->hw->priv; 902 free_mr = &priv->free_mr; 903 904 lp_qp_work = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hns_roce_recreate_lp_qp_work), ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Not checked. 905 GFP_KERNEL); 906 907 INIT_WORK(&(lp_qp_work->work), hns_roce_v1_recreate_lp_qp_work_fn); 908 909 lp_qp_work->ib_dev = &(hr_dev->ib_dev); 910 lp_qp_work->comp = ∁ 911 lp_qp_work->comp_flag = 1; 912 913 init_completion(lp_qp_work->comp); 914 915 queue_work(free_mr->free_mr_wq, &(lp_qp_work->work)); 916 917 while (time_before_eq(jiffies, end)) { 918 if (try_wait_for_completion(&comp)) 919 return 0; 920 msleep(HNS_ROCE_V1_RECREATE_LP_QP_WAIT_VALUE); 921 } 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