From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx> The variable holding the number of GPIO lines is duplicated in GPIO device so read it instead of unnecessarily dereferencing the chip pointer. Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c index 8e37e3befa08..e993c6a7215a 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c @@ -2701,7 +2701,7 @@ static int gpio_chrdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) if (!cdev) return -ENODEV; - cdev->watched_lines = bitmap_zalloc(gdev->chip->ngpio, GFP_KERNEL); + cdev->watched_lines = bitmap_zalloc(gdev->ngpio, GFP_KERNEL); if (!cdev->watched_lines) goto out_free_cdev; -- 2.40.1