The NULL initialization of the pointer assigned by kzalloc() first is not necessary, because if the kzalloc() failed, the pointer will be assigned NULL, otherwise it works as usual. so remove it. Signed-off-by: Ruan Jinjie <ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_submit.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_submit.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_submit.c index 3c00135ead45..82563dbec2ab 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_submit.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_submit.c @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ static int virtio_gpu_fence_event_create(struct drm_device *dev, struct virtio_gpu_fence *fence, u32 ring_idx) { - struct virtio_gpu_fence_event *e = NULL; + struct virtio_gpu_fence_event *e; int ret; e = kzalloc(sizeof(*e), GFP_KERNEL); -- 2.34.1