Sep 10 2012

watchdog: move the dereference below the NULL test 

Author: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>

The dereference should be moved below the NULL test.

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Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun 
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck 

---
 drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
index 6aa46a9..3796434 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
@@ -128,11 +128,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(watchdog_register_device);
 void watchdog_unregister_device(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
 {
 	int ret;
-	int devno = wdd->cdev.dev;
+	int devno;
 
 	if (wdd == NULL)
 		return;
 
+	devno = wdd->cdev.dev;
 	ret = watchdog_dev_unregister(wdd);
 	if (ret)
 		pr_err("error unregistering /dev/watchdog (err=%d)\n", ret);

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