I moved the dereference of "port" after the check to verify it was non-NULL. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/bfa/lport_api.c b/drivers/scsi/bfa/lport_api.c index 72b3f50..5cd356a 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/bfa/lport_api.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/bfa/lport_api.c @@ -149,11 +149,12 @@ bfa_fcs_port_get_rport_max_speed(struct bfa_fcs_port_s *port) enum bfa_pport_speed max_speed = 0; struct bfa_pport_attr_s pport_attr; enum bfa_pport_speed pport_speed, rport_speed; - bfa_boolean_t trl_enabled = bfa_fcport_is_ratelim(port->fcs->bfa); + bfa_boolean_t trl_enabled; if (port == NULL) return 0; + trl_enabled = bfa_fcport_is_ratelim(port->fcs->bfa); fcs = port->fcs; /* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html