Hello Bernard Metzler, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 6c52fdc244b5: "rdma/siw: connection management" from Jun 20, 2019, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_cm.c:1518 siw_connect() error: we previously assumed 'qp' could be null (see line 1372) drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_cm.c 1371 qp = siw_qp_id2obj(sdev, params->qpn); 1372 if (!qp) { ^^^ NULL 1373 WARN(1, "[QP %u] does not exist\n", params->qpn); 1374 rv = -EINVAL; 1375 goto error; ^^^^^^^^^^ 1376 } 1377 if (v4) 1378 siw_dbg_qp(qp, [ snip ] 1508 if (rv >= 0) { 1509 rv = siw_cm_queue_work(cep, SIW_CM_WORK_MPATIMEOUT); 1510 if (!rv) { 1511 siw_dbg_cep(cep, "id 0x%p, [QP %u]: exit\n", id, 1512 qp_id(qp)); 1513 siw_cep_set_free(cep); 1514 return 0; 1515 } 1516 } 1517 error: 1518 siw_dbg_qp(qp, "failed: %d\n", rv); ^^ NULL dereference. 1519 1520 if (cep) { regards, dan carpenter