Hello Arik Nemtsov, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 3edab305dfd4: "wlcore/wl12xx: change GEM Tx-spare blocks per-vif" from Dec 7, 2011, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/tx.c:231 wl1271_tx_allocate() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'wlvif' (see line 208) drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/tx.c 207 else if (wlvif->is_gem) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ New dereference. 208 spare_blocks = wl->gem_tx_spare; 209 210 total_blocks = wlcore_hw_calc_tx_blocks(wl, total_len, spare_blocks); 211 212 if (total_blocks <= wl->tx_blocks_available) { 213 desc = (struct wl1271_tx_hw_descr *)skb_push( 214 skb, total_len - skb->len); 215 216 wlcore_hw_set_tx_desc_blocks(wl, desc, total_blocks, 217 spare_blocks); 218 219 desc->id = id; 220 221 wl->tx_blocks_available -= total_blocks; 222 wl->tx_allocated_blocks += total_blocks; 223 224 /* If the FW was empty before, arm the Tx watchdog */ 225 if (wl->tx_allocated_blocks == total_blocks) 226 wl12xx_rearm_tx_watchdog_locked(wl); 227 228 ac = wl1271_tx_get_queue(skb_get_queue_mapping(skb)); 229 wl->tx_allocated_pkts[ac]++; 230 231 if (!is_dummy && wlvif && ^^^^^ Old check. 232 wlvif->bss_type == BSS_TYPE_AP_BSS && 233 test_bit(hlid, wlvif->ap.sta_hlid_map)) 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