Hello Raju Rangoju, The patch 1dad0ebeea1c: "RDMA/iw_cxgb4: Avoid touch after free error in ARP failure handlers" from May 15, 2017, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c:4310 process_work() warn: 'skb' was already freed. drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c 4289 static void process_work(struct work_struct *work) 4290 { 4291 struct sk_buff *skb = NULL; 4292 struct c4iw_dev *dev; 4293 struct cpl_act_establish *rpl; 4294 unsigned int opcode; 4295 int ret; 4296 4297 process_timedout_eps(); 4298 while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&rxq))) { 4299 rpl = cplhdr(skb); 4300 dev = *((struct c4iw_dev **) (skb->cb + sizeof(void *))); 4301 opcode = rpl->ot.opcode; 4302 4303 if (opcode >= ARRAY_SIZE(work_handlers) || 4304 !work_handlers[opcode]) { 4305 pr_err("No handler for opcode 0x%x.\n", opcode); 4306 kfree_skb(skb); 4307 } else { 4308 ret = work_handlers[opcode](dev, skb); 4309 if (!ret) 4310 kfree_skb(skb); I'm not sure why this warning didn't show up before... :( We added some kfree_skb() calls to _put_ep_safe() and _put_pass_ep_safe(). The thing about kfree_skb() is that it's refcounted so it might not free anything so this could be a false positive. I've looked at the code and it looks like it could be a bug? 4311 } 4312 process_timedout_eps(); 4313 } 4314 } regards, dan carpenter