Hello Dmitry Eremin, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings.
The patch 80feb1ef349e: "staging: lustre: provide separate buffers for libcfs_*2str()" from Oct 21, 2015, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c:676 lprocfs_rd_import() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'imp->imp_connection' (see line 668) drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c 667 } 668 libcfs_nid2str_r(imp->imp_connection->c_peer.nid, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Patch introduces a new dereference. 669 nidstr, sizeof(nidstr)); 670 seq_printf(m, 671 "]\n" 672 " current_connection: %s\n" 673 " connection_attempts: %u\n" 674 " generation: %u\n" 675 " in-progress_invalidations: %u\n", 676 imp->imp_connection == NULL ? "<none>" : nidstr, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Old code assumes it can be NULL. 677 imp->imp_conn_cnt, 678 imp->imp_generation, regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel