The NULL initialization of the pointers assigned by kzalloc() first is not necessary, because if the kzalloc() failed, the pointers will be assigned NULL, otherwise it works as usual. so remove it. Signed-off-by: Ruan Jinjie <ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_dev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_dev.c b/drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_dev.c index 2bc428f2e261..8e42839e6060 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_dev.c +++ b/drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_dev.c @@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ static void vudc_device_unusable(struct usbip_device *ud) struct vudc_device *alloc_vudc_device(int devid) { - struct vudc_device *udc_dev = NULL; + struct vudc_device *udc_dev; udc_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*udc_dev), GFP_KERNEL); if (!udc_dev) -- 2.34.1