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SubjectRe: [PATCH] misc: eeprom: assignment outside the if statement
On Fri,  3 Aug 2018 14:50:43 +0530, Parth Y Shah wrote:
> Assignment of any variable should be kept outside the if statement

Actually there are exceptions to that rule, but this isn't one of them.

> Signed-off-by: Parth Y Shah <sparth1292@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/misc/eeprom/max6875.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/eeprom/max6875.c b/drivers/misc/eeprom/max6875.c
> index 0e32709..fc0cf9a 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/eeprom/max6875.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/eeprom/max6875.c
> @@ -148,7 +148,8 @@ static int max6875_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
> if (client->addr & 1)
> return -ENODEV;
>
> - if (!(data = kzalloc(sizeof(struct max6875_data), GFP_KERNEL)))
> + data = kzalloc(sizeof(struct max6875_data), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!data)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> /* A fake client is created on the odd address */

Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>

Thanks,
--
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support

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