Hello Nobuo Iwata, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 0775a9cbc694: "usbip: vhci extension: modifications to vhci driver" from Jun 13, 2016, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c:466 vhci_tx_urb() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'vdev' (see line 463) drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c 462 struct vhci_priv *priv; 463 struct vhci_hcd *vhci = vdev_to_vhci(vdev); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Patch adds a new dereference inside the vdev_to_vhci() function. 464 unsigned long flags; 465 466 if (!vdev) { ^^^^^ Old code assumed "vdev" could be NULL. 467 pr_err("could not get virtual device"); 468 return; regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html