Found by cppcheck and smatch. smatch complains about drivers/s390/net/ctcm_sysfs.c:43 ctcm_buffer_write() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'priv' (see line 42) Fixes: 3c09e2647b5e ("ctcm: rename READ/WRITE defines to avoid redefinitions") Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/s390/net/ctcm_sysfs.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_sysfs.c b/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_sysfs.c index ded1930a00b2..e3813a7aa5e6 100644 --- a/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_sysfs.c @@ -39,11 +39,12 @@ static ssize_t ctcm_buffer_write(struct device *dev, struct ctcm_priv *priv = dev_get_drvdata(dev); int rc; - ndev = priv->channel[CTCM_READ]->netdev; - if (!(priv && priv->channel[CTCM_READ] && ndev)) { + if (!(priv && priv->channel[CTCM_READ] && + priv->channel[CTCM_READ]->netdev)) { CTCM_DBF_TEXT(SETUP, CTC_DBF_ERROR, "bfnondev"); return -ENODEV; } + ndev = priv->channel[CTCM_READ]->netdev; rc = kstrtouint(buf, 0, &bs1); if (rc) -- 2.32.0