Hello James Smart, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch acd6859b084d: "[SCSI] lpfc 8.3.29: T10 Diff fixes and enhancements" from Jan 18, 2012, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_scsi.c:1592 lpfc_bg_err_inject() error: we previously assumed 'apptag' could be null (see line 1430) drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_scsi.c 1429 /* Should we change the Application Tag */ 1430 if (apptag) { ^^^^^^ Old check. 1431 if (phba->lpfc_injerr_wapp_cnt) { 1432 switch (op) { 1433 case SCSI_PROT_WRITE_PASS: 1434 if (blockoff && src) { [snip] 1585 case SCSI_PROT_READ_STRIP: 1586 case SCSI_PROT_READ_PASS: 1587 /* 1588 * For READ_STRIP and READ_PASS, force the 1589 * error on data being read off the wire. It 1590 * should force an IO error to the driver. 1591 */ 1592 *apptag = 0xDEAD; ^^^^^^^ New dereference not checked. Btw, apptag is always zero in the current code. 1593 phba->lpfc_injerr_rgrd_cnt--; 1594 phba->lpfc_injerr_lba = LPFC_INJERR_LBA_OFF; 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