Hello John Garry, The patch dc8a49cabc73: "scsi: hisi_sas: add internal abort to hisi_sas_abort_task()" from Aug 24, 2016, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/scsi/hisi_sas/hisi_sas_main.c:848 hisi_sas_abort_task() error: we previously assumed 'slot' could be null (see line 847) drivers/scsi/hisi_sas/hisi_sas_main.c 809 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&task->task_state_lock, flags); 810 sas_dev->dev_status = HISI_SAS_DEV_EH; 811 if (task->lldd_task && task->task_proto & SAS_PROTOCOL_SSP) { ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ We assume that ->lldd_task can be NULL. 812 struct scsi_cmnd *cmnd = task->uldd_task; 813 struct hisi_sas_slot *slot = task->lldd_task; 814 u32 tag = slot->idx; 815 816 int_to_scsilun(cmnd->device->lun, &lun); 817 tmf_task.tmf = TMF_ABORT_TASK; 818 tmf_task.tag_of_task_to_be_managed = cpu_to_le16(tag); 819 820 rc = hisi_sas_debug_issue_ssp_tmf(task->dev, lun.scsi_lun, 821 &tmf_task); 822 823 /* if successful, clear the task and callback forwards.*/ 824 if (rc == TMF_RESP_FUNC_COMPLETE) { 825 if (task->lldd_task) { 826 struct hisi_sas_slot *slot; 827 828 slot = &hisi_hba->slot_info 829 [tmf_task.tag_of_task_to_be_managed]; 830 spin_lock_irqsave(&hisi_hba->lock, flags); 831 hisi_hba->hw->slot_complete(hisi_hba, slot, 1); 832 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hisi_hba->lock, flags); 833 } 834 } 835 836 hisi_sas_internal_task_abort(hisi_hba, device, 837 HISI_SAS_INT_ABT_CMD, tag); 838 } else if (task->task_proto & SAS_PROTOCOL_SATA || 839 task->task_proto & SAS_PROTOCOL_STP) { 840 if (task->dev->dev_type == SAS_SATA_DEV) { 841 hisi_sas_internal_task_abort(hisi_hba, device, 842 HISI_SAS_INT_ABT_DEV, 0); 843 rc = TMF_RESP_FUNC_COMPLETE; 844 } 845 } else if (task->task_proto & SAS_PROTOCOL_SMP) { 846 /* SMP */ 847 struct hisi_sas_slot *slot = task->lldd_task; We assign it to slot. 848 u32 tag = slot->idx; ^^^^^^^^^ slot dereferenced without checking. 849 850 hisi_sas_internal_task_abort(hisi_hba, device, 851 HISI_SAS_INT_ABT_CMD, tag); 852 } regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html