Hello Steen Hegelund, Commit dccc30cc4906 ("net: microchip: sparx5: Add KUNIT test of counters and sorted rules") from Nov 11, 2022 (linux-next), leads to the following Smatch static checker warning: drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/vcap/vcap_api_kunit.c:305 test_vcap_xn_rule_creator() error: 'rule' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR() drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/vcap/vcap_api_kunit.c:1422 vcap_api_encode_rule_test() error: 'rule' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR() drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/vcap/vcap_api_kunit.c 246 static void test_vcap_xn_rule_creator(struct kunit *test, int cid, 247 enum vcap_user user, u16 priority, 248 int id, int size, int expected_addr) 249 { 250 struct vcap_rule *rule; 251 struct vcap_rule_internal *ri; 252 enum vcap_keyfield_set keyset = VCAP_KFS_NO_VALUE; 253 enum vcap_actionfield_set actionset = VCAP_AFS_NO_VALUE; 254 int ret; 255 256 /* init before testing */ 257 memset(test_updateaddr, 0, sizeof(test_updateaddr)); 258 test_updateaddridx = 0; 259 test_move_addr = 0; 260 test_move_offset = 0; 261 test_move_count = 0; 262 263 switch (size) { 264 case 2: 265 keyset = VCAP_KFS_ETAG; 266 actionset = VCAP_AFS_CLASS_REDUCED; 267 break; 268 case 3: 269 keyset = VCAP_KFS_PURE_5TUPLE_IP4; 270 actionset = VCAP_AFS_CLASSIFICATION; 271 break; 272 case 6: 273 keyset = VCAP_KFS_NORMAL_5TUPLE_IP4; 274 actionset = VCAP_AFS_CLASSIFICATION; 275 break; 276 case 12: 277 keyset = VCAP_KFS_NORMAL_7TUPLE; 278 actionset = VCAP_AFS_FULL; 279 break; 280 default: 281 break; 282 } 283 284 /* Check that a valid size was used */ 285 KUNIT_ASSERT_NE(test, VCAP_KFS_NO_VALUE, keyset); 286 287 /* Allocate the rule */ 288 rule = vcap_alloc_rule(&test_vctrl, &test_netdev, cid, user, priority, 289 id); 290 KUNIT_EXPECT_PTR_NE(test, NULL, rule); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ vcap_alloc_rule() doesn't return NULL, it returns error pointers. 291 292 ri = (struct vcap_rule_internal *)rule; 293 294 /* Override rule keyset */ 295 ret = vcap_set_rule_set_keyset(rule, keyset); 296 297 /* Add rule actions : there must be at least one action */ 298 ret = vcap_rule_add_action_u32(rule, VCAP_AF_ISDX_VAL, 0); 299 300 /* Override rule actionset */ 301 ret = vcap_set_rule_set_actionset(rule, actionset); 302 303 ret = vcap_val_rule(rule, ETH_P_ALL); 304 KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, 0, ret); --> 305 KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, keyset, rule->keyset); 306 KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, actionset, rule->actionset); 307 KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, size, ri->size); 308 309 /* Add rule with write callback */ 310 ret = vcap_add_rule(rule); 311 KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, 0, ret); 312 KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, expected_addr, ri->addr); 313 vcap_free_rule(rule); 314 } regards, dan carpenter