From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com (Corentin Labbe) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 20:39:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] crypto: stm32 - Support for STM32 CRC32 crypto module In-Reply-To: <1489509446-32283-3-git-send-email-fabien.dessenne@st.com> References: <1489509446-32283-1-git-send-email-fabien.dessenne@st.com> <1489509446-32283-3-git-send-email-fabien.dessenne@st.com> Message-ID: <20170314193954.GA12137@Red> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 05:37:24PM +0100, Fabien Dessenne wrote: > +static int stm32_crc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) > +{ > + struct stm32_crc *crc = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); > + > + spin_lock(&crc_list.lock); > + list_del(&crc->list); > + spin_unlock(&crc_list.lock); > + > + crypto_unregister_shash(algs); > + > + if (crc && crc->clk) > + clk_disable_unprepare(crc->clk); Hello No need to test for crc, if it was NULL, you dereference it just before in list_del. Furthermore, It seems that clk_disable_unprepare() handle perfectly NULL, so no test is needed. Regards Corentin Labbe