Hello Lee Jones, The patch 5f6091a023ca: "usb: musb: ux500: harden checks for platform data" from May 15, 2013, leads to the following static checker warning: "drivers/usb/musb/ux500_dma.c:335 ux500_dma_controller_start() error: potential NULL dereference 'param_array'." drivers/usb/musb/ux500_dma.c 313 param_array = data ? data->dma_rx_param_array : NULL; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 314 chan_names = (char **)iep_chan_names; 315 316 for (dir = 0; dir < 2; dir++) { 317 for (ch_num = 0; 318 ch_num < UX500_MUSB_DMA_NUM_RX_TX_CHANNELS; 319 ch_num++) { 320 ux500_channel = &channel_array[ch_num]; 321 ux500_channel->controller = controller; 322 ux500_channel->ch_num = ch_num; 323 ux500_channel->is_tx = is_tx; 324 325 dma_channel = &(ux500_channel->channel); 326 dma_channel->private_data = ux500_channel; 327 dma_channel->status = MUSB_DMA_STATUS_FREE; 328 dma_channel->max_len = SZ_16M; 329 330 ux500_channel->dma_chan = 331 dma_request_slave_channel(dev, chan_names[ch_num]); 332 333 if (!ux500_channel->dma_chan) 334 ux500_channel->dma_chan = 335 dma_request_channel(mask, 336 data ? 337 data->dma_filter : 338 NULL, 339 param_array[ch_num]); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It's not clear if param_array[] is NULL or not here. 340 341 if (!ux500_channel->dma_chan) { 342 ERR("Dma pipe allocation error dir=%d ch=%d\n", 343 dir, ch_num); 344 345 /* Release already allocated channels */ 346 ux500_dma_controller_stop(controller); 347 348 return -EBUSY; 349 } 350 351 } 352 353 /* Prepare the loop for TX channels */ 354 channel_array = controller->tx_channel; 355 param_array = data ? data->dma_tx_param_array : NULL; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 356 chan_names = (char **)oep_chan_names; 357 is_tx = 1; 358 } 359 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