Hello Bart Van Assche, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 75f141aaf48e: "target/tcm_loop: Use target_submit_tmr() instead of open-coding this function" from May 23, 2017, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/target/loopback/tcm_loop.c:247 tcm_loop_issue_tmr() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'se_cmd' (see line 234) drivers/target/loopback/tcm_loop.c 223 tl_cmd = kmem_cache_zalloc(tcm_loop_cmd_cache, GFP_KERNEL); 224 if (!tl_cmd) { 225 pr_err("Unable to allocate memory for tl_cmd\n"); 226 return ret; 227 } 228 229 init_completion(&tl_cmd->tmr_done); 230 231 se_cmd = &tl_cmd->tl_se_cmd; 232 se_sess = tl_tpg->tl_nexus->se_sess; 233 234 rc = target_submit_tmr(se_cmd, se_sess, tl_cmd->tl_sense_buf, lun, ^^^^^^ Dereferenced here. 235 NULL, tmr, GFP_KERNEL, task, 236 TARGET_SCF_ACK_KREF); 237 if (rc < 0) 238 goto release; 239 wait_for_completion(&tl_cmd->tmr_done); 240 ret = se_cmd->se_tmr_req->response; 241 target_put_sess_cmd(se_cmd); 242 243 out: 244 return ret; 245 246 release: 247 if (se_cmd) 248 transport_generic_free_cmd(se_cmd, 0); 249 else 250 kmem_cache_free(tcm_loop_cmd_cache, tl_cmd); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is dead code. 251 goto out; 252 } regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html