Hello Konstantin Komarov, Commit b46acd6a6a62 ("fs/ntfs3: Add NTFS journal") from Aug 13, 2021 (linux-next), leads to the following Smatch static checker warning: fs/ntfs3/fslog.c:627 enum_rstbl() error: we previously assumed 't' could be null (see line 616) fs/ntfs3/fslog.c 612 static inline void *enum_rstbl(struct RESTART_TABLE *t, void *c) 613 { 614 __le32 *e; 615 u32 bprt; 616 u16 rsize = t ? le16_to_cpu(t->size) : 0; ^ If t is NULL this function will either return NULL or crash. Can t be NULL? If so, why not add a check for that at the beginning? if (!t) return NULL; rsize = le16_to_cpu(t->size); 617 618 if (!c) { 619 if (!t || !t->total) 620 return NULL; 621 e = Add2Ptr(t, sizeof(struct RESTART_TABLE)); 622 } else { 623 e = Add2Ptr(c, rsize); 624 } 625 626 /* Loop until we hit the first one allocated, or the end of the list. */ --> 627 for (bprt = bytes_per_rt(t); PtrOffset(t, e) < bprt; ^ NULL dereference 628 e = Add2Ptr(e, rsize)) { 629 if (*e == RESTART_ENTRY_ALLOCATED_LE) 630 return e; 631 } 632 return NULL; 633 } regards, dan carpenter