Hello Glen Lee, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings.
The patch 4ad81fd6125f: "staging: wilc1000: GetIfHandler: add argument struct wilc and use it" from Oct 27, 2015, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c:1590 frmw_to_linux() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'wilc' (see line 1571) drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c 1570 1571 wilc_netdev = GetIfHandler(wilc, buff); ^^^^ New dereference (inside the function call). 1572 if (wilc_netdev == NULL) 1573 return; 1574 1575 buff += pkt_offset; 1576 nic = netdev_priv(wilc_netdev); 1577 1578 if (size > 0) { 1579 1580 frame_len = size; 1581 buff_to_send = buff; 1582 1583 /* Need to send the packet up to the host, allocate a skb buffer */ 1584 skb = dev_alloc_skb(frame_len); 1585 if (skb == NULL) { 1586 PRINT_ER("Low memory - packet droped\n"); 1587 return; 1588 } 1589 1590 if (wilc == NULL || wilc_netdev == NULL) ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Old code assumes wilc can be NULL. 1591 PRINT_ER("wilc_netdev in wilc is NULL"); 1592 skb->dev = wilc_netdev; regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel