misc: cxl: Fix possible null pointer dereference
authorzhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Thu, 4 Oct 2018 05:02:53 +0000 (13:02 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 24 Nov 2019 07:21:03 +0000 (08:21 +0100)
commit5d017065cec9b946e709ec18ae2a59594ee94736
tree590764d3e70c784de18c2a078617e5e7c420ad5f
parent9089b2f0049e12a826c1440869ffd8a1b39d0116
misc: cxl: Fix possible null pointer dereference

[ Upstream commit 3dac3583bf1a61db6aaf31dfd752c677a4400afd ]

It is not safe to dereference an object before a null test. It is
not needed and just remove them. Ftrace can be used instead.

Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/misc/cxl/guest.c