Hello Mark A. Greer, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch ab714817d7e8: "NFC: trf7970a: Handle extra byte in response to Type 5 RMB commands" from Apr 24, 2015, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/nfc/trf7970a.c:632 trf7970a_send_upstream() error: we previously assumed 'trf->rx_skb' could be null (see line 613) drivers/nfc/trf7970a.c 612 613 if (trf->rx_skb && !IS_ERR(trf->rx_skb) && !trf->aborting) ^^^^^^^^^^^ Check for NULL. 614 print_hex_dump_debug("trf7970a rx data: ", DUMP_PREFIX_NONE, 615 16, 1, trf->rx_skb->data, trf->rx_skb->len, 616 false); 617 618 trf->state = TRF7970A_ST_IDLE; 619 620 if (trf->aborting) { 621 dev_dbg(trf->dev, "Abort process complete\n"); 622 623 if (!IS_ERR(trf->rx_skb)) { 624 kfree_skb(trf->rx_skb); 625 trf->rx_skb = ERR_PTR(-ECANCELED); 626 } 627 628 trf->aborting = false; 629 } 630 631 if (trf->adjust_resp_len) { 632 skb_trim(trf->rx_skb, trf->rx_skb->len - 1); ^^^^^^^^^^^ Patch introduces unchecked dereference inside skb_trim(). 633 trf->adjust_resp_len = false; 634 } 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