Hi Neil, In d1b053e4de0ac33 "md/raid5: Protect some more code with ->device_lock." we moved some debug code around and it upsets my static checker. Could you take a look? drivers/md/raid5.c +2183 add_stripe_bio(47) error: potential null derefence 'bi'. 2168 if (forwrite) { 2169 /* check if page is covered */ 2170 sector_t sector = sh->dev[dd_idx].sector; 2171 for (bi=sh->dev[dd_idx].towrite; 2172 sector < sh->dev[dd_idx].sector + STRIPE_SECTORS && 2173 bi && bi->bi_sector <= sector; ^^ It looks like "bi" can be NULL at the end of this for loop. 2174 bi = r5_next_bio(bi, sh->dev[dd_idx].sector)) { 2175 if (bi->bi_sector + (bi->bi_size>>9) >= sector) 2176 sector = bi->bi_sector + (bi->bi_size>>9); 2177 } 2178 if (sector >= sh->dev[dd_idx].sector + STRIPE_SECTORS) 2179 set_bit(R5_OVERWRITE, &sh->dev[dd_idx].flags); 2180 } 2181 spin_unlock_irq(&conf->device_lock); 2182 2183 pr_debug("added bi b#%llu to stripe s#%llu, disk %d.\n", 2184 (unsigned long long)bi->bi_sector, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ We dereference it here. 2185 (unsigned long long)sh->sector, dd_idx); regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html