[PATCH] drivers/md/raid6algos.c: fix a NULL dereference

This patch fixes a NULL dereference spotted by the Coverity checker.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/raid6algos.c b/drivers/md/raid6algos.c
index 51c63c0cf1c..92657615657 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid6algos.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid6algos.c
@@ -139,15 +139,14 @@ int __init raid6_select_algo(void)
                 }
         }
 
-        if ( best )
+        if (best) {
                 printk("raid6: using algorithm %s (%ld MB/s)\n",
                        best->name,
                        (bestperf*HZ) >> (20-16+RAID6_TIME_JIFFIES_LG2));
-        else
+                raid6_call = *best;
+        } else
                 printk("raid6: Yikes!  No algorithm found!\n");
 
-        raid6_call = *best;
-
         free_pages((unsigned long)syndromes, 1);
 
         return best ? 0 : -EINVAL;