On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:33:42 -0400 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Great writeup, but as Miguel says, this isn't needed at all, the kernel
> relies on the compiler to be sane :)
We may still want to clean them up, e.g. for tooling -- Kees/Dan: do we?
e.g. I see a similar case with discussion at:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3f1e7aaa-501a-44f1-8122-28e9efa0a33c@xxxxxx/
Which in the end was picked up as commit 2df2c0caaecf ("fbdev: au1100fb:
Move a variable assignment behind a null pointer check").
Cheers,
Miguel
