Re: [PATCH] driver core: faux: Move a variable assignment behind a condition check in faux_device_destroy()

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:09:34 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.kernel-janitors,dev.linux.lists.driver-core,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <2026071217-fruit-uphill-eb0d@gregkh>
On Sun, Jul 12, 2026 at 03:56:09PM +0200, Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:45:19 +0200
> 
> The address of a data structure member was determined before
> a corresponding null pointer check in the implementation of
> the function “faux_device_destroy”.
> 
> Thus avoid the risk for undefined behaviour by moving the assignment
> for the variable “dev” behind a condition check.

There is no such "undefined behavior" here, sorry, please fix your
tools.