Cppcheck complains about a possible NULL pointer dereference but it actually looks like the NULL assignment is not needed (same loop is used in other parts of the file without it). Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/core/timer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c index 6e27d87b18ed..73ad5ba76b27 100644 --- a/sound/core/timer.c +++ b/sound/core/timer.c @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_timer_instance_free); */ static struct snd_timer *snd_timer_find(struct snd_timer_id *tid) { - struct snd_timer *timer = NULL; + struct snd_timer *timer; list_for_each_entry(timer, &snd_timer_list, device_list) { if (timer->tmr_class != tid->dev_class) -- 2.25.1