Don't dereference "data" when we know for sure it's NULL. Spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk at kernel.org> --- 66bec2ef5c6d55fc30ef6ac5bb97fdfcfaf394f2 diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/ibmpex.c b/drivers/hwmon/ibmpex.c index c462824..e14ce3d 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/ibmpex.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/ibmpex.c @@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ static void ibmpex_register_bmc(int iface, struct device *dev) data = kzalloc(sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL); if (!data) { printk(KERN_ERR DRVNAME ": Insufficient memory for BMC " - "interface %d.\n", data->interface); + "interface.\n"); return; }