This NULL check was required when it was added, but we shuffled the code around and now it's not. The inconsistent NULL checking triggers a Smatch warning: drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp5/mdp5_kms.c:847 mdp5_init() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'mdp5_kms' (see line 782) Fixes: 1f50db2f3e1e ("drm/msm/mdp5: move resource allocation to the _probe function" Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: Added a Fixes tag. It's not really a bug fix and so adding the fixes tag is slightly unfair but it should prevent this patch from accidentally getting backported before the refactoring and causing an issue. Btw, fixes tags are often unfair like this. People look at fixes tags and think, "the fix introduced a bug" but actually it's really common that the fix was just not complete. But from a backporting perspective it makes sense to tie them together. Plus everyone introduces bugs. If you're not introducing bugs, then you're probably not writing a lot of code. drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp5/mdp5_kms.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp5/mdp5_kms.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp5/mdp5_kms.c index 11d9fc2c6bf5..ec933d597e20 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp5/mdp5_kms.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp5/mdp5_kms.c @@ -844,8 +844,7 @@ static int mdp5_init(struct platform_device *pdev, struct drm_device *dev) return 0; fail: - if (mdp5_kms) - mdp5_destroy(mdp5_kms); + mdp5_destroy(mdp5_kms); return ret; } -- 2.39.2