The service state is dereferenced before BUG_ON and outside of the
spin lock. So in order to avoid possible NULL pointer dereferences or
races move the whole scope at a safer place.

This issue has been found by Cppcheck.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wah...@i2se.com>
---
 .../vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.c 
b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.c
index f3e1000..2e0e8ef 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.c
@@ -296,12 +296,13 @@ static const char *msg_type_str(unsigned int msg_type)
 void
 unlock_service(VCHIQ_SERVICE_T *service)
 {
-       VCHIQ_STATE_T *state = service->state;
        spin_lock(&service_spinlock);
        BUG_ON(!service || (service->ref_count == 0));
        if (service && service->ref_count) {
                service->ref_count--;
                if (!service->ref_count) {
+                       VCHIQ_STATE_T *state = service->state;
+
                        BUG_ON(service->srvstate != VCHIQ_SRVSTATE_FREE);
                        state->services[service->localport] = NULL;
                } else
-- 
1.7.9.5

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