It is safe to move dereference below a NULL test. Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongji...@huawei.com> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/cacheinfo.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cacheinfo.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cacheinfo.c index a8f20e5..7f19714 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cacheinfo.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cacheinfo.c @@ -401,14 +401,13 @@ static struct cache *cache_lookup_or_instantiate(struct device_node *node, struct cache *cache; cache = cache_lookup_by_node(node); + if (!cache) + cache = cache_do_one_devnode(node, level); WARN_ONCE(cache && cache->level != level, "cache level mismatch on lookup (got %d, expected %d)\n", cache->level, level); - if (!cache) - cache = cache_do_one_devnode(node, level); - return cache; } -- 1.7.12.4