From: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit ccf6fb858e17a8f8a914a1c6444d277cfedfeae6 ] Found by smatch: drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c:1088 tpm_tis_core_init() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'chip->ops' (see line 979) 'chip->ops' is assigned in the beginning of function in tpmm_chip_alloc->tpm_chip_alloc and is used before first possible goto to error path. Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c index 9b1116501f209..c028ffd953326 100644 --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c @@ -897,7 +897,7 @@ int tpm_tis_core_init(struct device *dev, struct tpm_tis_data *priv, int irq, return 0; out_err: - if ((chip->ops != NULL) && (chip->ops->clk_enable != NULL)) + if (chip->ops->clk_enable != NULL) chip->ops->clk_enable(chip, false); tpm_tis_remove(chip); -- 2.25.1