Hello Shubhrajyoti D, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch d7b4394e780b: "spi: omap2-mcspi: Cleanup the omap2_mcspi_txrx_dma function" from Sep 11, 2012, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/spi/spi-omap2-mcspi.c:425 omap2_mcspi_tx_dma() error: we previously assumed 'mcspi_dma->dma_tx' could be null (see line 405) drivers/spi/spi-omap2-mcspi.c 404 405 if (mcspi_dma->dma_tx) { ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Check for NULL. 406 struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx; 407 struct scatterlist sg; 408 409 dmaengine_slave_config(mcspi_dma->dma_tx, &cfg); 410 411 sg_init_table(&sg, 1); 412 sg_dma_address(&sg) = xfer->tx_dma; 413 sg_dma_len(&sg) = xfer->len; 414 415 tx = dmaengine_prep_slave_sg(mcspi_dma->dma_tx, &sg, 1, 416 DMA_MEM_TO_DEV, DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT | DMA_CTRL_ACK); 417 if (tx) { 418 tx->callback = omap2_mcspi_tx_callback; 419 tx->callback_param = spi; 420 dmaengine_submit(tx); 421 } else { 422 /* FIXME: fall back to PIO? */ 423 } 424 } 425 dma_async_issue_pending(mcspi_dma->dma_tx); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Dereferenced inside the function call. Probably it should be moved inside the if condition. 426 omap2_mcspi_set_dma_req(spi, 0, 1); 427 regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-spi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html