Hello Haggai Eran,
The patch be688195bd08: "IB/cma: Fix net_dev reference leak with
failed requests" from Aug 27, 2015, leads to the following static
checker warning:
drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c:1306 cma_id_from_event()
error: potential NULL dereference '*net_dev'.
drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c
1279 static struct rdma_id_private *cma_id_from_event(struct ib_cm_id *cm_id,
1280 struct ib_cm_event
*ib_event,
1281 struct net_device
**net_dev)
1282 {
1283 struct cma_req_info req;
1284 struct rdma_bind_list *bind_list;
1285 struct rdma_id_private *id_priv;
1286 int err;
1287
1288 err = cma_save_req_info(ib_event, &req);
1289 if (err)
1290 return ERR_PTR(err);
1291
1292 *net_dev = cma_get_net_dev(ib_event, &req);
1293 if (IS_ERR(*net_dev)) {
1294 if (PTR_ERR(*net_dev) == -EAFNOSUPPORT) {
1295 /* Assuming the protocol is AF_IB */
1296 *net_dev = NULL;
Set to NULL here.
1297 } else {
1298 return ERR_CAST(*net_dev);
1299 }
1300 }
1301
1302 bind_list = cma_ps_find(rdma_ps_from_service_id(req.service_id),
1303
cma_port_from_service_id(req.service_id));
1304 id_priv = cma_find_listener(bind_list, cm_id, ib_event, &req,
*net_dev);
1305 if (IS_ERR(id_priv)) {
1306 dev_put(*net_dev);
Dereferenced inside function call. This warning is from a work in
progress Smatch check (unpublished).
1307 *net_dev = NULL;
1308 }
1309
1310 return id_priv;
1311 }
regards,
dan carpenter
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