The Coverity checker spotted the following inconsequent NULL checking in drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c: <-- snip --> ... static void mptsas_delete_expander_phys(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc) { ... if (port_info->phy_info && (!(port_info->phy_info[0].identify.device_info & MPI_SAS_DEVICE_INFO_SMP_TARGET))) continue; if (mptsas_sas_expander_pg0(ioc, &buffer, (MPI_SAS_EXPAND_PGAD_FORM_HANDLE << MPI_SAS_EXPAND_PGAD_FORM_SHIFT), port_info->phy_info[0].handle)) { ... <-- snip --> port_info->phy_info is first checked but later dereferenced unconditionally. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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