From: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 9ed38fd4a15417cac83967360cf20b853bfab9b6 upstream. Although very unlikely that the tlink pointer would be null in this case, get_next_mid function can in theory return null (but not an error) so need to check for null (not for IS_ERR, which can not be returned here). Address warning: fs/smbfs_client/connect.c:2392 cifs_match_super() warn: 'tlink' isn't an ERR_PTR Pointed out by Dan Carpenter via smatch code analysis tool CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/connect.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c @@ -2960,9 +2960,10 @@ cifs_match_super(struct super_block *sb, spin_lock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock); cifs_sb = CIFS_SB(sb); tlink = cifs_get_tlink(cifs_sb_master_tlink(cifs_sb)); - if (IS_ERR(tlink)) { + if (tlink == NULL) { + /* can not match superblock if tlink were ever null */ spin_unlock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock); - return rc; + return 0; } tcon = tlink_tcon(tlink); ses = tcon->ses;