My static checker complains that "devid" can be uninitialized if alloc_chrdev_region() fails. Fix this by moving the error hanling forward a couple lines. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hidraw.c b/drivers/hid/hidraw.c index b9a76e3..f0e2757 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hidraw.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hidraw.c @@ -582,14 +582,13 @@ int __init hidraw_init(void) result = alloc_chrdev_region(&dev_id, HIDRAW_FIRST_MINOR, HIDRAW_MAX_DEVICES, "hidraw"); - - hidraw_major = MAJOR(dev_id); - if (result < 0) { pr_warn("can't get major number\n"); goto out; } + hidraw_major = MAJOR(dev_id); + hidraw_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "hidraw"); if (IS_ERR(hidraw_class)) { result = PTR_ERR(hidraw_class); -- 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