Hello Ursula Braun, The patch 6bb14e48ee8d: "net/smc: dynamic allocation of CLC proposal buffer" from Sep 10, 2020, leads to the following static checker warning: net/smc/af_smc.c:1390 smc_listen_work() warn: 'buf' was already freed. net/smc/af_smc.c 1363 1364 /* receive SMC Confirm CLC message */ 1365 rc = smc_clc_wait_msg(new_smc, &cclc, sizeof(cclc), 1366 SMC_CLC_CONFIRM, CLC_WAIT_TIME); 1367 if (rc) { 1368 if (!ism_supported) 1369 goto out_unlock; 1370 goto out_decl; 1371 } 1372 1373 /* finish worker */ 1374 kfree(buf); ^^^^^^^^^^ freed. 1375 if (!ism_supported) { 1376 rc = smc_listen_rdma_finish(new_smc, &cclc, 1377 ini.first_contact_local); 1378 if (rc) 1379 goto out_unlock; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1380 mutex_unlock(&smc_server_lgr_pending); 1381 } 1382 smc_conn_save_peer_info(new_smc, &cclc); 1383 smc_listen_out_connected(new_smc); 1384 return; 1385 1386 out_unlock: 1387 mutex_unlock(&smc_server_lgr_pending); 1388 out_decl: 1389 smc_listen_decline(new_smc, rc, ini.first_contact_local); 1390 kfree(buf); ^^^^^^^^^^ Double free. 1391 } regards, dan carpenter