Hello Amir Goldstein, The patch 0e7f2cccb42a: "ovl: detect overlapping layers" from Apr 18, 2019, leads to the following static checker warning: fs/overlayfs/super.c:998 ovl_setup_trap() warn: passing a valid pointer to 'PTR_ERR' fs/overlayfs/super.c 991 static int ovl_setup_trap(struct super_block *sb, struct dentry *dir, 992 struct inode **ptrap, const char *name) 993 { 994 struct inode *trap; 995 int err; 996 997 trap = ovl_get_trap_inode(sb, dir); 998 err = PTR_ERR(trap); 999 if (IS_ERR(trap) && err == -ELOOP) { 1000 pr_err("overlayfs: conflicting %s path\n", name); 1001 return err; 1002 } 1003 1004 *ptrap = trap; 1005 return 0; 1006 } The warning message is wrong but the code is also wrong. The ovl_get_trap_inode() can return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) and that would lead to and Oops when we try to call iput() on it. regards, dan carpenter