Rectify the below smatch warning: drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c:963 msm_ioctl_gem_submit() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'submit' 'submit' is normally error pointer or valid, so remove its NULL initializer as it's confusing and also remove a redundant check for it's value. Signed-off-by: Aashish Sharma <shraash@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c index 5599d93ec0d2..74fe1c56cd65 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c @@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ int msm_ioctl_gem_submit(struct drm_device *dev, void *data, struct msm_drm_private *priv = dev->dev_private; struct drm_msm_gem_submit *args = data; struct msm_file_private *ctx = file->driver_priv; - struct msm_gem_submit *submit = NULL; + struct msm_gem_submit *submit; struct msm_gpu *gpu = priv->gpu; struct msm_gpu_submitqueue *queue; struct msm_ringbuffer *ring; @@ -946,8 +946,7 @@ int msm_ioctl_gem_submit(struct drm_device *dev, void *data, put_unused_fd(out_fence_fd); mutex_unlock(&queue->lock); out_post_unlock: - if (submit) - msm_gem_submit_put(submit); + msm_gem_submit_put(submit); if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(post_deps)) { for (i = 0; i < args->nr_out_syncobjs; ++i) { kfree(post_deps[i].chain); -- 2.38.0.rc2.412.g84df46c1b4-goog