"dev" can never be NULL there so there is no need to check it. Also I made a couple of white space changes to the declaration of "dev". This eliminates a smatch warning about checking for NULL after a dereference. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/video/s2255drv.c b/drivers/media/video/s2255drv.c index fb742f1..e70af5d 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/s2255drv.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/s2255drv.c @@ -2582,8 +2582,9 @@ error: /* disconnect routine. when board is removed physically or with rmmod */ static void s2255_disconnect(struct usb_interface *interface) { - struct s2255_dev *dev = NULL; + struct s2255_dev *dev; int i; + dprintk(1, "s2255: disconnect interface %p\n", interface); dev = usb_get_intfdata(interface); @@ -2602,11 +2603,9 @@ static void s2255_disconnect(struct usb_interface *interface) usb_set_intfdata(interface, NULL); mutex_unlock(&dev->open_lock); - if (dev) { - kref_put(&dev->kref, s2255_destroy); - dprintk(1, "s2255drv: disconnect\n"); - dev_info(&interface->dev, "s2255usb now disconnected\n"); - } + kref_put(&dev->kref, s2255_destroy); + dprintk(1, "s2255drv: disconnect\n"); + dev_info(&interface->dev, "s2255usb now disconnected\n"); } static struct usb_driver s2255_driver = { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html