The dereference should be moved below the NULL test.
spatch with a semantic match is used to found this.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
 /* Executes one TPC (data is read/written from small or large fifo) */
 static void r592_execute_tpc(struct r592_device *dev)
 {
-       bool is_write = dev->req->tpc >= MS_TPC_SET_RW_REG_ADRS;
+       bool is_write;
        int len, error;
        u32 status, reg;
 
                return;
        }
 
+       is_write = dev->req->tpc >= MS_TPC_SET_RW_REG_ADRS;
        len = dev->req->long_data ?
                dev->req->sg.length : dev->req->data_len;