Hello Justin Tee, The patch a3c3c0a806f1: "scsi: lpfc: Validate ELS LS_ACC completion payload" from Oct 9, 2023 (linux-next), leads to the following Smatch static checker warning: drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c:2133 lpfc_cmpl_els_plogi() warn: list_entry() does not return NULL 'prsp' drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c 2126 if (release_node) 2127 lpfc_disc_state_machine(vport, ndlp, cmdiocb, 2128 NLP_EVT_DEVICE_RM); 2129 } else { 2130 /* Good status, call state machine */ 2131 prsp = list_entry(cmdiocb->cmd_dmabuf->list.next, 2132 struct lpfc_dmabuf, list); --> 2133 if (!prsp) list_entry() never returns NULL. If the list is empty it returns an invalid pointer. Did you want to use list_entry_or_null()? 2134 goto out; 2135 if (!lpfc_is_els_acc_rsp(prsp)) 2136 goto out; 2137 ndlp = lpfc_plogi_confirm_nport(phba, prsp->virt, ndlp); regards, dan carpenter