cppcheck throws invalid NULL dereference warnings but there's indeed no need to initialize a loop variable or initialize to NULL before allocating memory. Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Bard Liao <yung-chuan.liao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Péter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_ipc.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_ipc.c b/sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_ipc.c index 78ea67c7a1281..4e039c7173d8c 100644 --- a/sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_ipc.c +++ b/sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_ipc.c @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ struct sst_block *sst_create_block(struct intel_sst_drv *ctx, u32 msg_id, u32 drv_id) { - struct sst_block *msg = NULL; + struct sst_block *msg; dev_dbg(ctx->dev, "Enter\n"); msg = kzalloc(sizeof(*msg), GFP_KERNEL); @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ struct sst_block *sst_create_block(struct intel_sst_drv *ctx, int sst_wake_up_block(struct intel_sst_drv *ctx, int result, u32 drv_id, u32 ipc, void *data, u32 size) { - struct sst_block *block = NULL; + struct sst_block *block; dev_dbg(ctx->dev, "Enter\n"); @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ int sst_wake_up_block(struct intel_sst_drv *ctx, int result, int sst_free_block(struct intel_sst_drv *ctx, struct sst_block *freed) { - struct sst_block *block = NULL, *__block; + struct sst_block *block, *__block; dev_dbg(ctx->dev, "Enter\n"); spin_lock_bh(&ctx->block_lock); -- 2.30.2