Hello Janusz Dziedzic, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch d265214b614a: "ath9k: dfs move ath_dfs_pool_stats" from Oct 14, 2013, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dfs_debug.c:67 read_file_dfs() error: we previously assumed 'sc->dfs_detector' could be null (see line 47) drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dfs_debug.c 46 47 if (sc->dfs_detector) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Patch introduces a new check. 48 dfs_pool_stats = sc->dfs_detector->get_stats(sc->dfs_detector); 49 50 len += scnprintf(buf + len, size - len, "DFS support for " 51 "macVersion = 0x%x, macRev = 0x%x: %s\n", 52 hw_ver->macVersion, hw_ver->macRev, 53 (sc->sc_ah->caps.hw_caps & ATH9K_HW_CAP_DFS) ? 54 "enabled" : "disabled"); 55 len += scnprintf(buf + len, size - len, "Pulse detector statistics:\n"); 56 ATH9K_DFS_STAT("pulse events reported ", pulses_total); 57 ATH9K_DFS_STAT("invalid pulse events ", pulses_no_dfs); 58 ATH9K_DFS_STAT("DFS pulses detected ", pulses_detected); 59 ATH9K_DFS_STAT("Datalen discards ", datalen_discards); 60 ATH9K_DFS_STAT("RSSI discards ", rssi_discards); 61 ATH9K_DFS_STAT("BW info discards ", bwinfo_discards); 62 ATH9K_DFS_STAT("Primary channel pulses ", pri_phy_errors); 63 ATH9K_DFS_STAT("Secondary channel pulses", ext_phy_errors); 64 ATH9K_DFS_STAT("Dual channel pulses ", dc_phy_errors); 65 len += scnprintf(buf + len, size - len, "Radar detector statistics " 66 "(current DFS region: %d)\n", 67 sc->dfs_detector->region); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Existing unchecked dereference. 68 ATH9K_DFS_STAT("Pulse events processed ", pulses_processed); 69 ATH9K_DFS_STAT("Radars detected ", radar_detected); regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html