Hello Clark Wang, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch cf86874bb9bd: "spi: lpspi: Let watermark change with send data length" from Dec 7, 2018, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/spi/spi-fsl-lpspi.c:322 fsl_lpspi_setup_transfer() error: we previously assumed 't' could be null (see line 302) drivers/spi/spi-fsl-lpspi.c 301 fsl_lpspi->config.bpw = t ? t->bits_per_word : spi->bits_per_word; ^^^ 302 fsl_lpspi->config.speed_hz = t ? t->speed_hz : spi->max_speed_hz; ^^^ Old code checks for NULL. 303 fsl_lpspi->config.chip_select = spi->chip_select; 304 305 if (!fsl_lpspi->config.speed_hz) 306 fsl_lpspi->config.speed_hz = spi->max_speed_hz; 307 if (!fsl_lpspi->config.bpw) 308 fsl_lpspi->config.bpw = spi->bits_per_word; 309 310 /* Initialize the functions for transfer */ 311 if (fsl_lpspi->config.bpw <= 8) { 312 fsl_lpspi->rx = fsl_lpspi_buf_rx_u8; 313 fsl_lpspi->tx = fsl_lpspi_buf_tx_u8; 314 } else if (fsl_lpspi->config.bpw <= 16) { 315 fsl_lpspi->rx = fsl_lpspi_buf_rx_u16; 316 fsl_lpspi->tx = fsl_lpspi_buf_tx_u16; 317 } else { 318 fsl_lpspi->rx = fsl_lpspi_buf_rx_u32; 319 fsl_lpspi->tx = fsl_lpspi_buf_tx_u32; 320 } 321 322 if (t->len <= fsl_lpspi->txfifosize) ^^^^^^ 323 fsl_lpspi->watermark = t->len; ^^^^^^ The patch adds new unchecked dereferences. 324 else regards, dan carpenter