On Fri, 2021-08-06 at 16:42 +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote: > Avoid a potential NULL pointer dereference by testing that the ATA > port > info variable "pi". > > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c > index 61c762961ca8..ea8b91297f12 100644 > --- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c > +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c > @@ -5458,7 +5458,7 @@ struct ata_host *ata_host_alloc_pinfo(struct > device *dev, > ap->link.flags |= pi->link_flags; > ap->ops = pi->port_ops; Hey, pi is used here > > - if (!host->ops && (pi->port_ops != > &ata_dummy_port_ops)) > + if (!host->ops && pi && pi->port_ops != > &ata_dummy_port_ops) So checking it here is just going to get us a load of static checker reports. James