Hello Prameela Rani Garnepudi, The patch 9a629fafe7d8: "rsi: immediate wakeup bit and priority for TX command packets" from Jul 10, 2017, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_mgmt.c:277 rsi_send_internal_mgmt_frame() error: potentially dereferencing uninitialized 'desc'. drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_mgmt.c 267 static int rsi_send_internal_mgmt_frame(struct rsi_common *common, 268 struct sk_buff *skb) 269 { 270 struct skb_info *tx_params; 271 struct rsi_cmd_desc *desc; ^^^^ 272 273 if (skb == NULL) { 274 rsi_dbg(ERR_ZONE, "%s: Unable to allocate skb\n", __func__); 275 return -ENOMEM; 276 } 277 desc->desc_dword0.len_qno |= cpu_to_le16(DESC_IMMEDIATE_WAKEUP); ^^^^^^ 278 skb->priority = MGMT_SOFT_Q; 279 tx_params = (struct skb_info *)&IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb)->driver_data; 280 tx_params->flags |= INTERNAL_MGMT_PKT; 281 skb_queue_tail(&common->tx_queue[MGMT_SOFT_Q], skb); 282 rsi_set_event(&common->tx_thread.event); 283 return 0; 284 } regards, dan carpenter