The patch 2080913e017a: "staging: r8712u: Fix regression caused by commit 8c213fa" from Feb 25, 2012, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c:629 r871xu_dev_remove() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'padapter' (see line 625) The fix is to move the new statements inside the block where padapter is not NULL. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Index: staging/drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c =================================================================== --- staging.orig/drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c +++ staging/drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c @@ -620,12 +620,12 @@ static void r871xu_dev_remove(struct usb struct _adapter *padapter = netdev_priv(pnetdev); struct usb_device *udev = interface_to_usbdev(pusb_intf); - if (padapter->fw_found) - release_firmware(padapter->fw); - /* never exit with a firmware callback pending */ - wait_for_completion(&padapter->rtl8712_fw_ready); usb_set_intfdata(pusb_intf, NULL); if (padapter) { + if (padapter->fw_found) + release_firmware(padapter->fw); + /* never exit with a firmware callback pending */ + wait_for_completion(&padapter->rtl8712_fw_ready); if (drvpriv.drv_registered == true) padapter->bSurpriseRemoved = true; if (pnetdev != NULL) { _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel