Hello James Smart, The patch 8b017a30a313: "lpfc: Add support for ELS LCB." from May 21, 2015, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c:5243 lpfc_els_rcv_lcb() error: potential null dereference 'lcb_context'. (kmalloc returns null) drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c 5205 if (phba->sli_rev < LPFC_SLI_REV4 || 5206 (bf_get(lpfc_sli_intf_if_type, &phba->sli4_hba.sli_intf) != 5207 LPFC_SLI_INTF_IF_TYPE_2)) { 5208 rjt_err = LSRJT_CMD_UNSUPPORTED; 5209 goto rjt; 5210 } 5211 lcb_context = kmalloc(sizeof(struct lpfc_lcb_context), GFP_KERNEL); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ No check for allocation failure. 5212 5213 if (phba->hba_flag & HBA_FCOE_MODE) { 5214 rjt_err = LSRJT_CMD_UNSUPPORTED; 5215 goto rjt; 5216 } 5217 if (beacon->lcb_frequency == 0) { 5218 rjt_err = LSRJT_CMD_UNSUPPORTED; 5219 goto rjt; 5220 } 5221 if ((beacon->lcb_type != LPFC_LCB_GREEN) && 5222 (beacon->lcb_type != LPFC_LCB_AMBER)) { Also: drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c:5261 lpfc_els_rcv_lcb() warn: possible memory leak of 'lcb_context' 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