There is otherwise a risk of a possible null pointer dereference.

Was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.

Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqv...@spectrumdigital.se>
---
 drivers/staging/unisys/virtpci/virtpci.c |   23 +++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/virtpci/virtpci.c 
b/drivers/staging/unisys/virtpci/virtpci.c
index ee9f826..d818eda 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/unisys/virtpci/virtpci.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/virtpci/virtpci.c
@@ -1314,15 +1314,13 @@ static ssize_t virtpci_driver_attr_show(struct kobject 
*kobj,
        ssize_t ret = 0;
 
        struct driver_private *dprivate = to_driver(kobj);
-       struct device_driver *driver;
 
-       if (dprivate != NULL)
-               driver = dprivate->driver;
-       else
-               driver = NULL;
+       if (dprivate) {
+               struct device_driver *driver = dprivate->driver;
+
+               DBGINF("In virtpci_driver_attr_show driver->name:%s\n",
+                               driver->name);
 
-       DBGINF("In virtpci_driver_attr_show driver->name:%s\n", driver->name);
-       if (driver) {
                if (dattr->show)
                        ret = dattr->show(driver, buf);
        }
@@ -1337,16 +1335,13 @@ static ssize_t virtpci_driver_attr_store(struct kobject 
*kobj,
        ssize_t ret = 0;
 
        struct driver_private *dprivate = to_driver(kobj);
-       struct device_driver *driver;
 
-       if (dprivate != NULL)
-               driver = dprivate->driver;
-       else
-               driver = NULL;
+       if (dprivate) {
+               struct device_driver *driver = dprivate->driver;
 
-       DBGINF("In virtpci_driver_attr_store driver->name:%s\n", driver->name);
+               DBGINF("In virtpci_driver_attr_store driver->name:%s\n",
+                               driver->name);
 
-       if (driver) {
                if (dattr->store)
                        ret = dattr->store(driver, buf, count);
        }
-- 
1.7.10.4

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