Assignment of any variable should be kept outside the if statement Signed-off-by: Parth Y Shah <sparth1...@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 */ -- 2.7.4