On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 11:51:07 +0530, Shaleen Bathla wrote: > Coverity scan reports use after free issue which is a false positive. > In error case, free event->vm instead of vm to avoid this warning in > coverity. This is an insufficient justification. We normally don't modify the code _only_ to silence coverity. The reasoning is that it can be either fixed by coverity at some point, or worse coverity once again starting to report a problem with the code because of a different issue. You can try to come up with a commit message that justifies the change in a different way which would be accepted normally. (E.g. "making it obvious to the reader".)