Currently cmnd pointer is already dereferenced before NULL check and thus getting below warning in static analysis: warn: variable dereferenced before check 'cmnd' So initialize struct scsi_device *sdp after NULL check of cmnd Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Akhilesh Kumar <akhilesh.k@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c index 1f8e2dc..bb97a5a 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c @@ -3942,7 +3942,7 @@ schedule_resp(struct scsi_cmnd *cmnd, struct sdebug_dev_info *devip, unsigned long iflags; int k, num_in_q, qdepth, inject; struct sdebug_queued_cmd *sqcp = NULL; - struct scsi_device *sdp = cmnd->device; + struct scsi_device *sdp; if (NULL == cmnd || NULL == devip) { pr_warn("%s: called with NULL cmnd or devip pointer\n", @@ -3950,6 +3950,8 @@ schedule_resp(struct scsi_cmnd *cmnd, struct sdebug_dev_info *devip, /* no particularly good error to report back */ return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY; } + + sdp = cmnd->device; if ((scsi_result) && (SCSI_DEBUG_OPT_NOISE & scsi_debug_opts)) sdev_printk(KERN_INFO, sdp, "%s: non-zero result=0x%x\n", __func__, scsi_result); -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html