From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 19:26:25 +0000 Subject: re: [IA64] Failure to grow RBS Message-Id: <20131106192625.GA22627@elgon.mountain> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Hello Andrew Burgess, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch e8c59c0cf9c9: "[IA64] Failure to grow RBS" from Aug 16, 2007, leads to the following Smatch complaint: arch/ia64/mm/fault.c:138 ia64_do_page_fault() error: we previously assumed 'vma' could be null (see line 138) arch/ia64/mm/fault.c 137 */ 138 if (( !vma && prev_vma ) || (address < vma->vm_start) ) ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If !vma and !prev_vma then Oops. 139 goto check_expansion; 140 regards, dan carpenter