As reported by the kbuild test robot, the 'usp' pointer needs to be allocated before being used. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/unioxx5.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/unioxx5.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/unioxx5.c index 6661cf7..1b19cc2 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/unioxx5.c +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/unioxx5.c @@ -375,15 +375,15 @@ static int __unioxx5_subdev_init(struct comedi_device *dev, int i, to, ndef_flag = 0; int ret; + usp = kzalloc(sizeof(*usp), GFP_KERNEL); + if (usp == NULL) + return -ENOMEM; + ret = __comedi_request_region(dev, iobase, UNIOXX5_SIZE); if (ret) return ret; usp->usp_iobase = iobase; - usp = kzalloc(sizeof(*usp), GFP_KERNEL); - if (usp == NULL) - return -ENOMEM; - /* defining modules types */ for (i = 0; i < 12; i++) { to = 10000; -- 1.8.1.4 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel