Hello Sascha Hauer, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch c008a8007162: "spi: imx: initialize usedma earlier" from Feb 24, 2016, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/spi/spi-imx.c:870 spi_imx_setupxfer() error: we previously assumed 't' could be null (see line 848) drivers/spi/spi-imx.c 847 848 config.bpw = t ? t->bits_per_word : spi->bits_per_word; ^ 849 config.speed_hz = t ? t->speed_hz : spi->max_speed_hz; ^ Old code checks for NULL. 850 config.mode = spi->mode; 851 config.cs = spi->chip_select; 852 853 if (!config.speed_hz) 854 config.speed_hz = spi->max_speed_hz; 855 if (!config.bpw) 856 config.bpw = spi->bits_per_word; 857 858 /* Initialize the functions for transfer */ 859 if (config.bpw <= 8) { 860 spi_imx->rx = spi_imx_buf_rx_u8; 861 spi_imx->tx = spi_imx_buf_tx_u8; 862 } else if (config.bpw <= 16) { 863 spi_imx->rx = spi_imx_buf_rx_u16; 864 spi_imx->tx = spi_imx_buf_tx_u16; 865 } else { 866 spi_imx->rx = spi_imx_buf_rx_u32; 867 spi_imx->tx = spi_imx_buf_tx_u32; 868 } 869 870 if (spi_imx_can_dma(spi_imx->bitbang.master, spi, t)) ^ Patch adds a new unchecked dereference (inside the function call). 871 spi_imx->usedma = 1; 872 else 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