Hello Atul Deshmukh, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 7ec0effd30bb: "[SCSI] qla2xxx: Add support for ISP8044." from Aug 27, 2013, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c:2958 qla2x00_probe_one() error: we previously assumed 'base_vha' could be null (see line 2628) drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c 2627 base_vha = qla2x00_create_host(sht, ha); 2628 if (!base_vha) { ^^^^^^^^^ Existing check. 2629 ret = -ENOMEM; 2630 qla2x00_mem_free(ha); 2631 qla2x00_free_req_que(ha, req); 2632 qla2x00_free_rsp_que(ha, rsp); 2633 goto probe_hw_failed; 2634 } [ snip ] 2935 probe_failed: 2936 if (base_vha->timer_active) 2937 qla2x00_stop_timer(base_vha); 2938 base_vha->flags.online = 0; 2939 if (ha->dpc_thread) { 2940 struct task_struct *t = ha->dpc_thread; 2941 2942 ha->dpc_thread = NULL; 2943 kthread_stop(t); 2944 } 2945 2946 qla2x00_free_device(base_vha); 2947 2948 scsi_host_put(base_vha->host); 2949 2950 probe_hw_failed: 2951 if (IS_QLA82XX(ha)) { 2952 qla82xx_idc_lock(ha); 2953 qla82xx_clear_drv_active(ha); 2954 qla82xx_idc_unlock(ha); 2955 } 2956 if (IS_QLA8044(ha)) { 2957 qla8044_idc_lock(ha); 2958 qla8044_clear_drv_active(base_vha); ^^^^^^^^ Patch introduces new unchecked dereference. 2959 qla8044_idc_unlock(ha); 2960 } 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