linux-kernel - Re: video: au1100fb: Move a variable assignment behind a null pointer check in au1100fb

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Message-ID: <82bce096-271a-43a7-a2cf-95b48669ce3c@web.de>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 11:36:28 +0100
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...libre.com>,
 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@....net>, Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>, Yihao Han <hanyihao@...o.com>,
 cocci@...ia.fr, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: video: au1100fb: Move a variable assignment behind a null pointer
 check in au1100fb_setmode()

> 	struct fb_info *info = &fbdev->info;
>
> 	if (!fbdev)
> 		return -EINVAL;

Is such a null pointer check still relevant for the discussed function implementation?

Regards,
Markus