Hello Anand Kumar Santhanam, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch cb269c26ed02: "[SCSI] pm80xx: Print SAS address of IO failed device." from Sep 17, 2013, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_hwi.c:2368 mpi_sata_completion() error: we previously assumed 'pm8001_dev' could be null (see line 2327) drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_hwi.c 2326 2327 if ((pm8001_dev && !(pm8001_dev->id & NCQ_READ_LOG_FLAG)) ^^^^^^^^^^ Existing check. 2328 && unlikely(!t || !t->lldd_task || !t->dev)) { 2329 PM8001_FAIL_DBG(pm8001_ha, 2330 pm8001_printk("task or dev null\n")); 2331 return; 2332 } 2333 2334 ts = &t->task_status; 2335 if (!ts) { 2336 PM8001_FAIL_DBG(pm8001_ha, 2337 pm8001_printk("ts null\n")); 2338 return; 2339 } 2340 /* Print sas address of IO failed device */ 2341 if ((status != IO_SUCCESS) && (status != IO_OVERFLOW) && 2342 (status != IO_UNDERFLOW)) { 2343 if (!((t->dev->parent) && 2344 (DEV_IS_EXPANDER(t->dev->parent->dev_type)))) { 2345 for (i = 0 , j = 4; j <= 7 && i <= 3; i++ , j++) 2346 sata_addr_low[i] = pm8001_ha->sas_addr[j]; 2347 for (i = 0 , j = 0; j <= 3 && i <= 3; i++ , j++) 2348 sata_addr_hi[i] = pm8001_ha->sas_addr[j]; 2349 memcpy(&temp_sata_addr_low, sata_addr_low, 2350 sizeof(sata_addr_low)); 2351 memcpy(&temp_sata_addr_hi, sata_addr_hi, 2352 sizeof(sata_addr_hi)); 2353 temp_sata_addr_hi = (((temp_sata_addr_hi >> 24) & 0xff) 2354 |((temp_sata_addr_hi << 8) & 2355 0xff0000) | 2356 ((temp_sata_addr_hi >> 8) 2357 & 0xff00) | 2358 ((temp_sata_addr_hi << 24) & 2359 0xff000000)); 2360 temp_sata_addr_low = ((((temp_sata_addr_low >> 24) 2361 & 0xff) | 2362 ((temp_sata_addr_low << 8) 2363 & 0xff0000) | 2364 ((temp_sata_addr_low >> 8) 2365 & 0xff00) | 2366 ((temp_sata_addr_low << 24) 2367 & 0xff000000)) + 2368 pm8001_dev->attached_phy + ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Patch introduces new unchecked dereference. 2369 0x10); 2370 PM8001_FAIL_DBG(pm8001_ha, 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