From: Thomas Bourgoin <thomas.bourgoin@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 0eaef675b94c746900dcea7f6c41b9a103ed5d53 ] smatch warnings: drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-crc32.c:108 stm32_crc_get_next_crc() warn: can 'crc' even be NULL? Use list_first_entry_or_null instead of list_first_entry to retrieve the first device registered. The function list_first_entry always return a non NULL pointer even if the list is empty. Hence checking if the pointer returned is NULL does not tell if the list is empty or not. Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202311281111.ou2oUL2i-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/ Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202311281111.ou2oUL2i-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/ Signed-off-by: Thomas Bourgoin <thomas.bourgoin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32_crc32.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32_crc32.c b/drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32_crc32.c index de645bf84980..04adc84d677c 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32_crc32.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32_crc32.c @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static struct stm32_crc *stm32_crc_get_next_crc(void) struct stm32_crc *crc; spin_lock_bh(&crc_list.lock); - crc = list_first_entry(&crc_list.dev_list, struct stm32_crc, list); + crc = list_first_entry_or_null(&crc_list.dev_list, struct stm32_crc, list); if (crc) list_move_tail(&crc->list, &crc_list.dev_list); spin_unlock_bh(&crc_list.lock); -- 2.43.0