On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 11:11:43PM +0000, Colin King wrote: > --- > drivers/soc/fsl/dpio/qbman-portal.c | 5 +++-- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/soc/fsl/dpio/qbman-portal.c b/drivers/soc/fsl/dpio/qbman-portal.c > index 740ee0d19582..d1f49caa5b13 100644 > --- a/drivers/soc/fsl/dpio/qbman-portal.c > +++ b/drivers/soc/fsl/dpio/qbman-portal.c > @@ -249,10 +249,11 @@ struct qbman_swp *qbman_swp_init(const struct qbman_swp_desc *d) > u32 mask_size; > u32 eqcr_pi; > > - spin_lock_init(&p->access_spinlock); > - > if (!p) > return NULL; > + > + spin_lock_init(&p->access_spinlock); Allocations in the declaration blog are not super common in the kernel, but they're more bug prone. Generally, it's not beautiful to call a function which can fail in the allocation block. regards, dan carpenter