From: Dominique Martinet <dominique.martinet@xxxxxx> the client c is always dereferenced to get the rdma struct, so c has to be a valid pointer at this point. Gcc would optimize that away but let's make coverity happy... Addresses-Coverity-ID: 102778 ("Dereference before null check") Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <dominique.martinet@xxxxxx> --- net/9p/trans_rdma.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/9p/trans_rdma.c b/net/9p/trans_rdma.c index 9719bc4d9424..119103bfa82e 100644 --- a/net/9p/trans_rdma.c +++ b/net/9p/trans_rdma.c @@ -274,8 +274,7 @@ p9_cm_event_handler(struct rdma_cm_id *id, struct rdma_cm_event *event) case RDMA_CM_EVENT_DISCONNECTED: if (rdma) rdma->state = P9_RDMA_CLOSED; - if (c) - c->status = Disconnected; + c->status = Disconnected; break; case RDMA_CM_EVENT_TIMEWAIT_EXIT: -- 2.17.1