Hello Brian Foster, The patch 81ba8f3e947c: "xfs: remove dfops param from internal bmap extent helpers" from Jul 11, 2018, leads to the following static checker warning: fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c:2465 xfs_bmap_add_extent_unwritten_real() error: we previously assumed 'tp' could be null (see line 2037) fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c 2017 xfs_bmap_add_extent_unwritten_real( 2018 struct xfs_trans *tp, 2019 xfs_inode_t *ip, /* incore inode pointer */ 2020 int whichfork, 2021 struct xfs_iext_cursor *icur, 2022 xfs_btree_cur_t **curp, /* if *curp is null, not a btree */ 2023 xfs_bmbt_irec_t *new, /* new data to add to file extents */ 2024 int *logflagsp) /* inode logging flags */ 2025 { 2026 xfs_btree_cur_t *cur; /* btree cursor */ 2027 int error; /* error return value */ 2028 int i; /* temp state */ 2029 xfs_ifork_t *ifp; /* inode fork pointer */ 2030 xfs_fileoff_t new_endoff; /* end offset of new entry */ 2031 xfs_bmbt_irec_t r[3]; /* neighbor extent entries */ 2032 /* left is 0, right is 1, prev is 2 */ 2033 int rval=0; /* return value (logging flags) */ 2034 int state = xfs_bmap_fork_to_state(whichfork); 2035 struct xfs_mount *mp = ip->i_mount; 2036 struct xfs_bmbt_irec old; 2037 struct xfs_defer_ops *dfops = tp ? tp->t_dfops : NULL; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The patch adds a check for NULL. 2038 2039 *logflagsp = 0; 2040 [ snip ] 2454 2455 /* update reverse mappings */ 2456 error = xfs_rmap_convert_extent(mp, dfops, ip, whichfork, new); 2457 if (error) 2458 goto done; 2459 2460 /* convert to a btree if necessary */ 2461 if (xfs_bmap_needs_btree(ip, whichfork)) { 2462 int tmp_logflags; /* partial log flag return val */ 2463 2464 ASSERT(cur == NULL); 2465 error = xfs_bmap_extents_to_btree(tp, ip, &cur, 0, ^^ Existing code dereferences "tp" without checking for NULL. 2466 &tmp_logflags, whichfork); 2467 *logflagsp |= tmp_logflags; 2468 if (error) 2469 goto done; 2470 } 2471 See also: fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c:4376 xfs_bmapi_write() error: we previously assumed 'tp' could be null (see line 4272) fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c:4890 xfs_bmap_del_extent_real() error: we previously assumed 'tp' could be null (see line 4866) regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html