It seems that it is possible that dev to be null, as there's a warning printing: "Instance released before the end of transaction" Solves this warning: drivers/media/platform/vim2m.c: drivers/media/platform/vim2m.c:525 device_work() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'curr_ctx' (see line 523) Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/platform/vim2m.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/vim2m.c b/drivers/media/platform/vim2m.c index bfa1a2a16009..bd125ad34343 100644 --- a/drivers/media/platform/vim2m.c +++ b/drivers/media/platform/vim2m.c @@ -520,13 +520,14 @@ static void device_work(struct work_struct *w) unsigned long flags; curr_ctx = container_of(w, struct vim2m_ctx, work_run.work); - vim2m_dev = curr_ctx->dev; if (NULL == curr_ctx) { pr_err("Instance released before the end of transaction\n"); return; } + vim2m_dev = curr_ctx->dev; + src_vb = v4l2_m2m_src_buf_remove(curr_ctx->fh.m2m_ctx); dst_vb = v4l2_m2m_dst_buf_remove(curr_ctx->fh.m2m_ctx); -- 2.20.1